Gilbert Highet
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Gilbert Arthur Highet (June 22, 1906 – January 20, 1978) was a Scottish American classicist, academic writer, intellectual critic, and literary historian.
Works
Highet wrote voluminously. He is remembered today for:
- An Outline of Homer (1935)
- Werner Jaeger, Paideia : die Formung des griechischen Menschen, translated by Gilbert Highet as Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture (three volumes, 1939–1944)
- The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (1949)
- The Art of Teaching (1950)
- Another solution (1951) one of Highet's few fictional pieces, published in Harper's Magazine.
- People, Places and Books (1953)
- A Clerk of Oxenford: Essays on Literature and Life (1954)
- Man's Unconquerable Mind (1954)
- The Migration of Ideas (1954)
- Juvenal the Satirist: A Study (1954)
- Poets in a Landscape (1957)
- Talents and Geniuses (1957)
- The Powers of Poetry (1960)
- The Anatomy of Satire (1962)
- Explorations (1971)
- The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
- The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid (1972)
- The Classical Papers of Gilbert Highet, edited by Robert J. Ball (1983)
- The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert Highet, edited by Robert J. Ball (1998)
Highet contributed a satirical essay, 'Motherhood', to Red Rags : Essays of Hate from Oxford, ed. R.C. Carr, London : Chapman & Hall, 1933, 77-85.
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