Niall Rudd
William John Niall Rudd (1927 – 5 October 2015) was an Irish-born British classical scholar.[1]
Life and work
Rudd was born in Dublin and studied classical philology at Trinity College, Dublin and then taught Latin at Kingston upon Hull and Manchester.[2] From 1958 to 1968 he was Associate Professor of Latin at University College, Toronto. In 1968 he returned to England and taught for five years as a professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool. In 1973 he moved to the University of Bristol to the chair of Latin, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. From 1976 to 1979 he was Director (Head of Department) of the Department of Classics and Ancient History.[3]
After retirement Rudd returned to Liverpool and was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow there. Trinity College Dublin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1998 (LittD). Rudd died after a long illness (Alzheimer's) on 5 October 2015 at St. John's Hospice in the Wirral.
Rudd worked intensively with Latin literature, especially Roman poetry, and its reception in English literature of the modern age. He wrote monographs and articles on the satires of Horace and Juvenal whose work he presented in English translation. His work has been published in two collections (1994, 2005). In addition, he published in 1994 an autobiographical record of his childhood and youth in Ireland.
Bibliography
- The Satires of Horace. A Study. Cambridge 1966 [4]
- The Satires of Horace and Persius. A verse translation with an introduction and notes. Harmondsworth 1973
- T. E. Page: Schoolmaster Extraordinary. Bristol 1981
- Horace, Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones (‘Ars Poetica’). Cambridge 1989
- Juvenal. The Satires. Oxford 1991
- The Classical Tradition in Operation: Chaucer/Virgil, Shakespeare/Plautus, Pope/Horace, Tennyson/Lucretius, Pound/Propertius. Toronto 1994
- Pale Green, Light Orange. A portrait of bourgeois Ireland. Dublin 1994[2]
- with Robin G. M. Nisbet: A Commentary on Horace, Odes, Book III. Oxford 2004
- Horace, Odes and Epodes. Cambridge (Massachusetts) / London 2004 (Loeb Classical Library)[5]
- The Common Spring. Essays on Latin and English Poetry. Exeter 2005
- Lines of Enquiry. Studies in Latin Poetry. Cambridge 2005
- Samuel Johnson: The Latin Poems. Lewisburg 2005
- Landor’s Latin Poems. Fifty Pieces. Lewisburg 2010
References
- ↑ "Bristol University - News - October: Niall Rudd". bristol.ac.uk.
- 1 2 "The Lilliput Press". lilliputpress.ie.
- ↑ "Niall Rudd". Penguin Classics UK.
- ↑ "Review". jstor.org.
- ↑ "Nicholas Horsfall reviews ‘Horace’ edited by Niall Rudd · LRB 23 June 2005". London Review of Books.
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