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Wolf's Prolegomena - Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, James E. G. Zetzel: F. A. Wolf: Prolegomena to Homer, 1795. Translated with Introduction and Notes. Pp. xiv + 266. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. £30.20.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

E. J. Kenney
E. J. Kenney
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Peterhouse, Cambridge
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The Classical Review , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , April 1987 , pp. 89 - 91
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References

1 Lecture notes, quoted at The Making of Homeric Verse, ed. Parry, A. (1971), p. xvi n. 2.Google Scholar

2 His Prolegomena were reprinted in Valpy's Classical Journal, vols. vii and viii; and subsequently as a separate tract, ed. Fr. Ern. Ruhkopf (Leipzig, 1816). Knight is not recorded in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; there is a good brief article in DNB by Warwick Wroth, not mentioned by either Messmann, F. J., Richard Payne Knight. The Twilight of Virtuosity (Studies in English Literature 89) (The Hague & Paris, 1974)CrossRefGoogle Scholar or Clarke, M.–Penny, N., The Arrogant Connoisseur: Richard Payne Knight 1751–1824. Essays…together with a catalogue of works exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery, 1982 (Manchester, 1982).Google Scholar

3 I have not been able to check the fragments of Part II, since Bekker's edition is not available to me.

4 This error recurs: see chh. 18, 19, 39. At ch. 24 nimirum is (in its context) correctly rendered ‘no doubt’. The point is clearly expounded by Fowler, s.v. douhtless, no doubt, undouhtedly.

5 Cf. ‘idiosyncracies’ (p. 6). This appears to be a Princeton U.P. house spelling, but scholars with a respect for words should not allow themselves to be dictated to by Greekless publishers.