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Richard Jenkyns

Richard Jenkyns, Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford, is the author of The Victorians and Ancient Greece, and, most recently, of Virgil’s Experience.

Selected bibliography

  • A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen (2004)
  • Westminster Abbey (2004)
  • Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance (1992)
  • The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal (editor) (1992)
  • Virgil’s Experience: Nature and History; Times, Names and Places (1988)
  • Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus and Juvenal (1982)
  • The Victorians and Ancient Greece (1980)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Bottom · 9 August 2001

  • A History of Greece: From the Time of Solon to 403 BC by George Grote, edited by J.M. Mitchell and M.O.B. Caspari

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive A Mile or Two outside Worthing · 26 November 1998

  • Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Trelawny by David Crane

 not available in archive Coaxing and Seducing · 3 September 1998

  • Lucretius: ‘On the Nature of the Universe’ translated by Ronald Melville