The Common Spring

Niall Rudd is Emeritus Professor of Latin in the University of Bristol and Honorary Fellow in the University of Liverpool. He is author of 'The Satires of Horace' (Cambridge, 1966; repr. Bristol, 1982), 'Lines of Enquiry '(Cambridge, 1976), 'Themes in Roman Satire' (London, 1886; repr. Bristol, 1997), 'The Classical Tradition in Operation' (Toronto, 1994), [with R.G.M. Nisbet] 'Horace: Odes III' (Oxford, 2004), and 'Horace: Odes and Epodes' (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard, 2004). He is also translator of the satires of Horace and Persius (Penguin, repr. 1997), of Juvenal’s satires (Oxford, 1991), and of Cicero’s Republic and Laws (Oxford, 1998).

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Virgil's Contribution to Pastoral2. Necessity and Invention in the Aeneid3. Horace's Odes: a Defence of Criticism4. Achilles or Agamemnon? Horace, Epistle 1.2.135. Theme and Imagery in Propertius 2.156. Echo and Narcissus: a Study in Duality7. The Topicality of Juvenal8. The Classical Presence in Titus Andronicus9. The Taming of the Shrew: Some Classical Points of Reference10. Milton, Sonnet 17 (Carey no. 87): an Avoidable Controversy11. Dryden on Horace and Juvenal12. Problems of Patronage: Horace Epistles 1.7.46-98 and Swift's Imitation13. Variation and Inversion in Pope's Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot14. The Optimistic Lines in Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes15. Two Invitations: Tennyson To the Rev. F.D. Maurice and Horace to Maecenas (Odes, 3.29)16. Romantic Love in Classical Times?17. Classical Humanism and its CriticsNotes

This is a fine collection which well displays the scholarly characteristics of its writer: clear, forceful argument based on close, analytical, historicized and intentionalist readings of texts. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2006.07.21 The book is attractively produced and nicely bound. The articles would, I think, be accessible to 6th form students, although the considerable variety of topics means that one would not be tempted to buy it to support one particular set book; indeed, it is perhaps better bought by the English Department, rather than Classics. As an overview of Rudd the scholar it is excellent, and it would be an interesting addition to a school library. Journal of Classics Teaching, 9