File 4 - Reviews of R. C. Trevelyan's translation "The Antigone of Sophocles"

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TRER/25/4

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Reviews of R. C. Trevelyan's translation "The Antigone of Sophocles"

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  • 1924-1925 (Creation)

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Paper: eleven press cuttings.

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Press cuttings with reviews of Trevelyan's translation of the "Antigone" of Sophocles, most sent to Trevelyan by Durrant's Press Cuttings agency, from: the "Aberdeen Press and Journal"; the "Manchester Guardian"; the "Nation and Athenaeum" (article by Leonard Woolf, "The World of Books: Greek in English", which also reviews the Loeb translations of Aristophanes by Benjamin Bickley Rogers, George Moore's translation of "Daphnis and Chloe", and Francis Birrell and Shane Leslie's translation of Plato's "Symposium"); the "Times Literary Supplement"; "T.P's & Cassell's Weekly"; the "Scotsman"; the "Liverpool Daily Courier"; "Time and Tide" (also reviewing nine other new poetry books, including works by Swinburne, Sacheverell Sitwell and A. C. Benson); the "Bookman" (also reviewing Francis and Tatum's translation of Martial's epigrams); the "Classical Review" (also discussing other translations, including J T. Sheppard's version of Euripides' "Helen", the second volume of A. S. Way's "Aeneid", and Francis and Tatum's Martial); and the London Mercury (also reviewing Gilbert Murray's translation of the "Choephoroe", Verrall's translation of Aristophanes' "Birds" for the Cambridge production directed by J. T. Sheppard, and other verse translations of the classics".

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