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Correspondence, lectures, notebooks, books and offprints, diaries, newspaper clippings, addresses, index cards with citations for his "Syntax of Classical Greek," and translations, dating 1847-1925. Includes personal correspondence, correspondence of the American Journal of Philology, and unprocessed material from the early JHU Classics Department, c. 1876-1883.
The classic Latin grammar favored by many students and teachers with two new additions: -- Foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr. -- Comprehensive bibliography by William E. Wycislo The 45-page bibliography that accompanies our new reprint is designed primarily but not exclusively for an English-speaking audience, comprising scholarship produced on Latin grammar in English during this century.
In assembling Gildersleeve's writings-- autobiographical, Richmond Examiner newspaper editorials, and Southern essays, Briggs (classics and humanities, U. of South Carolina) brings to light the reflections of a U. of Virginia classics scholar during the Civil War. His classical rhetoric lends a novel twist to his loyalist but critical views on the South's "Good Cause," in chastising the Confederate administration as well as critics of slavery and Yankee poet "sinners" against the English language. Includes a few bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR