Richmond Lattimore's translation, originally from 1951, has been reissued with scholarly notes and a new introduction.
The lively translation is by Margaret Clarke, whose husband, I. F. Clarke, supplies a useful introduction and scholarly notes.
The basic framing of the novel — a madman's scholarly notes to a long poem — would present immense formal difficulties.
The basic framing of the novel a madman's scholarly notes to a long poem would present immense formal difficulties.
It's going to make me take up my Spanish again; meanwhile I gloat over the plates and read the scholarly notes.
The scholarly notes of the third edition, in which Dawkins deals with his critics and incorporates new evidence, are huge fun.
(Even the scholarly notes might be looked on as hidden clues, leading the reader to discover such gems as Richard D. Altick's "Victorian Studies in Scarlet" and Thomas Boyle's "Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead").
Scholarly notes explain that according to ideas of anatomy at this time, hysterica passio begins in the womb (hysteria in Greek), and climbs, via the heart, to the patient's throat, suffocating him.
Her 1935 edition of Milton (marked "Knox") has two layers of notes, one in pencil from her student days (scholarly notes on textual variants in "Lycidas") and one in pen, her teaching notes: "Hell not too definitive, must be a place of moral darkness".
Froben may well have been the one who promoted the change, which transformed what might have been an obscure edition of scholarly notes into a book that (despite the flaws of the hastily completed first edition) permanently changed the course of biblical studies.
