Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World At 3 o'clock one summer morning, a young classics scholar was crashing around in the ...

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AE Stallings is the Oxford Professor of Poetry; her latest book is This Afterlife: Selected Poems. The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, translated by Christopher Childers, is published by ...