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Prof Arthur Woollgar Verrall by Frederic Yates

Arthur Woollgar Verrall (5 February 1851,

Agamemnon; his detractors found his readings contorted and too ingenious, too often overlooking obvious explanations in favour of the convoluted, and his published work is nowadays not highly regarded.[1] After his death, admirers M. A. Bayfield and J. D. Duff edited Verrall's Collected Literary Essays. Classical and Modern and Collected Essays in Greek and Latin Scholarship 1914. Among his publications, Euripides the Rationalist was highly influential. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles
, a secret society, from 1871.

Life

Arthur Woollgar Verrall was the son of a solicitor.[2] He was educated at Twyford School, Wellington College, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA as 2nd Classic in 1872.[3]

Elected a fellow of Trinity in 1874, he was a College Lecturer from 1877 to 1911. In February 1911, he was appointed to fill the new King Edward VII professorship of literature at Cambridge, which had been endowed by

Harold Harmsworth.[2] A Trinity Tutor from 1889 to 1899; he was tutor to Aleister Crowley
.

He married

Palm Sunday Case, in which messages from Mary Catherine Lyttleton (who died on 21 March 1875) were supposedly transmitted by automatic writing to her lover Arthur Balfour.[6]

He is buried at the

British Psychoanalytic Society.[8]

References

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36646
  2. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Verrall, Arthur Woollgar" . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
  3. ^ "Verrall, Arthur Woollgar (VRL869AW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ISBN 0-521-48344-1
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  5. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48503
  6. ISBN 0-521-34767-X
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  7. ^ "Trinity College, University of Cambridge". BBC Your Paintings. Archived from the original on 19 November 2014.
  8. ^ F. Robert Rodman, Winnicott, life and work, Da Capo Press, 2004.

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