ůůֱ²¥ Catherine Conybeare Contributes to Translation of A.E. Housman Lecture
A of the lecture "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism" by renowned scholar and poet has an interesting ůůֱ²¥ connection.
Translated by , professor of Greek at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, the translation is supplemented with a preface, afterword, and previously unpublished extracts from the working notebook in which Housman wrote notes and preparatory citations.
The source notebook is known as "Notebook X," and is housed in ůůֱ²¥'s Special Collections Department. The passages that are used by Battezzato were transcribed by Catherine Conybeare, the Leslie Clark ůůֱ²¥ in the Humanities and ůůֱ²¥ of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies. Battezzato and Conybeare met and began their collaboration while they were both Visiting Fellows at the University of Oxford's All Souls College in 2019-20.
ůůֱ²¥â€™s Special Collections Department holds one of the most important collections of A.E. Housman papers and books, the result of a gift by Philadelphia collector Seymour Adelman (1906-1985). In addition to Notebooks X & Y, the collection includes Housman’s correspondence with his brother, prominent writer, illustrator, and theatrical producer Laurence Housman; many letter exchanges with publishers, writers, and classicists; copies of nearly all of Housman’s published works; and a large part of Housman’s personal library. Highlights from the collection were shown at ůůֱ²¥ and at the Morgan Library in New York in 1986 in the exhibition The Name and Nature of A.E. Housman.