John Swinnerton Phillimore
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John Swinnerton Phillimore (26 February 1873 – 16 November 1926) was a British classical scholar, translator, and poet.
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Biography
Born at Boconnoc in Cornwall,[1] Phillimore was, like his father, Augustus Phillimore before him, and four brothers, educated at Westminster School (1886–1891), where he was a Queen's Scholar, before going on to read Literae Humaniores at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was also President of the Oxford Union.[2] Hilaire Belloc was one of his most intimate friends at Oxford.[3]
After taking his degree, he remained at Christ Church as a Student (Fellow and Tutor) until 1899, when he was made Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow; in 1906 he became Professor of Humanity there, a position he held until his death.
Throughout his life he published a large number of scholarly articles and learned notes in the Classical Quarterly, Classical Review, Mnemosyne, and similar journals. A brilliant lecturer and writer on classical and literary themes in general, he exercised a marked influence on Scottish intellectual life.[4] Following his conversion to Catholicism in 1906,[5] he became an occasional contributor to the Dublin Review and developed an interest in Christian Latin poetry.
He was awarded the Chancellor's Prize for Latin verse, the Hertford, Craven and Ireland scholarships. Though he was invited to give the Sather Lectures (1914–1915) at the University of California, Berkeley, he was unable to do so because of the First World War.[6]
John Swinnerton Phillimore died in Shedfield, Hampshire.
Private life
Phillimore married Margaret Cecily Hamilton-Spencer-Smith (1875–1965) on July 26, 1900. The couple had two children:
- Cynthia Louise Phillimore (born 1901)
- John Michael Fortescue Phillimore (1903–1971)
Legacy
"The Phillimore" is a poetic form named for him and patterned after his poem In a Meadow, which was collected by Quiller-Couch in The Oxford Book of English Verse. "It combines pentameter and dimeter lines in an eight-line stanza, and is rhymed in couplets."[7]
Works
- Poems. Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons, 1902
- The Athenian Drama, vol. ii, Sophocles. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1902
- Propertius. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906
- Things New and Old. London: Humphrey Milford, 1918
- The Revival of Criticism. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1919
- Some Remarks on Translation and Translators. Oxford: The English Association, 1919
- Ille ego: Virgil and Professor Richmond. London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1919
- The Hundred Best Latin Hymns. Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1926
Selected articles
- "On the Best Present Lines of Defence for Classics," Classical Association of Scotland: Proceedings (1904)
- "Leonidas of Tarentum," The Dublin Review, Vol. CXXXVIII, No. 276 (1906)
- "Crinagoras of Mytilene," The Dublin Review, Vol. CXXXIX, No. 277 (1906)
- "Asclepiades," The Dublin Review, Vol. CXL, No. 281 (1907)
- "St Paulinus of Nola," The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLVII, No. 295 (1910)
- "The Text of the Culex," Classical Philology, Vol. V, No. 4 (1910)
- "The Greek Romances." In: English Literature and the Classics. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1912)
- "Blessed Thomas More and the Arrest of Humanism in England," The Dublin Review, Vol. CLIII, No. 306 (1913)
- "The Wit of Augustus," The Lantern, Vol. I, No. 12 (1912)
- "Religion and Education," The Catholic Mind, Vol. XX, No. 13 (1922)
- "Scripture Versions and Variants," The Dublin Review, Vol. CLXX, No. 340 (1922; with J. Herbert Williams)
- "Terentiana," Classical Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (1924)
- "The Prospect in the Humanities," The London Mercury, Vol. XII, No. 68 (1925)
Notes
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- ↑ Hollis, Christopher (1965). The Oxford Union. London: Evans Brothers, p. 133.
- ↑ Chesterton, G. K. (1937). Autobiography. London: Hutchinson & Co., p. 290.
- ↑ McGuire, M. R. P. (1967). "Phillimore, John S." In: New Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
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- ↑ Dow, Sterling (1965). Fifty Years of Sathers: The Sather Professorship of Classical literature in the University of California, Berkeley, 1913/4-1963/4. Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 57.
- ↑ Berg, Viola Jacobson (1977). Pathways for the Poet: Poetry Forms Explained and Illustrated. Milford, MI: Mott Media, p. 150.
References
- Anon. (1927). "John Swinnerton Phillimore," The Month, Vol. CXLIX, No. 752, pp. 97–108.
- Gordon, George (1946). "John Swinnerton Phillimore." In: The Discipline of Letters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 185–207.
- Gordon, Mary C. Biggar (1945). The Life of George S. Gordon: 1881-1942. London: Oxford University Press.
- Miller, Steuart N. (1960–1961). "John Swinnerton Phillimore: A Memoir," The Dublin Review, Vol. CCXXXIV, No. 486, pp. 316–34.
- Miller, Steuart N. (1961). "John Swinnerton Phillimore: A Memoir, II" The Wiseman Review, Vol. CCXXXV, No. 487, pp. 23–47.
External links
- Works by John Swinnerton Phillimore at JSTOR
- Works by John Swinnerton Phillimore at Internet Archive
- Works by John Swinnerton Phillimore at Hathi Trust
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