Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 22 Feb 1915 (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
1 item.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking. - Apologies for not having written earlier to thank Benn for sending his book ["The Greek Philosophers", 2nd edition?]. Had not read the first edition, only Benn's 'subsequent smaller books on the same subject' so it was 'a very great pleasure' to read his views in more detail. Not himself a student of Greek philosophy, so has 'little right to criticise', feeling 'much more inclined to enjoy and admire and learn'. Particularly interested in the chapter on the 'Religious Revival', and the chapters on Plato, whom he now hopes to re-read. Feels Benn is a 'little too severe on Aristotle's poetics', and that Aristotle may have meant something more like 'representation' than 'imitation' by mimesis, and 'a good deal more' by plot than Benn seems to think. Thinks he remembers some remarks of Matthew Arnold on this point. Benn says that Zeno's puzzles has 'never yet been satisfactorily solved'; this may be true 'but B[ertrand] Russell would not admit it' and insists that modern mathematics have done so; Trevelyan cannot judge. Has recently read Russell's last book, and found much of it too difficult to fully understand, though he was very interested it; recommends it. Hopes the Benns are 'keeping well and as cheerful as may be in so sad a time'. They had the Abercrombie family - Lascelles Abercrombie, his wife, and their three children - here for December and January, so the house was full.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Finding aids
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Zone des notes
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
- Benn, Alfred William (1843–1915) philosopher (Sujet)
- Plato (c 428-347 BC), Greek philosopher (Sujet)
- Aristotle (384-322 BC) philosopher (Sujet)
- Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) poet and critic (Sujet)
- Zeno of Elea (c 490-c 430 BC) philosopher (Sujet)
- Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881-1938), poet and literary critic (Sujet)
- Abercrombie, Catherine (1881-1968), wife of Lascelles Abercrombie (Sujet)
- Abercrombie, David (1909-1992), phonetician (Sujet)
- Abercrombie, Michael (1912-1979), biologist (Sujet)
- Abercrombie, Ralph (1914-1968), critic and bookseller (Sujet)