W. F. Jackson Knight

William Francis Jackson Knight (1895-1964) was an English classical scholar.

W. F. Jackson Knight, educated at Dulwich College and Hertford College, Oxford, spent most of his academic career at the University of Exeter. [ [http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/special/guides/archives/071-80/075_01.html MS 75:Knight Family Papers, c 1920-1975] , Archival description at the University of Exeter] He translated Virgil for Penguin Classics; the translation is dedicated to Theodore Haarhoff, a Greek scholar and spiritualist who apparently attempted to help Knight make contact with Virgil's mind through mediums. [Harmon, Daniel P., [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1992/03.04.16.html 'Talking to Virgil'] , "Bryn Mawr Classical Review" 03.04.16 (1992). Review of T.P. Wiseman, "Talking to Virgil", 1992]

Jackson Knight's younger brother, the English literary critic George Wilson Knight, wrote a biography of him in 1975.

Works

*"Vergil's Troy", 1932
*"Cumaean Gates", 1936
*"Accentual Symmetry in Vergil", 1939
*"Roman Vergil", 1943
*"Vergil and Homer", 1950
*"Virgil's Aeneid, a translation", Penguin Classics, 1956

References

Further reading

*G. Wilson Knight, "Jackson Knight: a biography", 1975
*T. P. Wiseman, 'Talking to Virgil', in "Talking to Virgil", 1992.

External links

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