This is an early publication (1891) by the highly regarded
classical scholar and poet Walter George Headlam (1866-1908).
Headlam, who taught at King's College, Cambridge, was deeply
interested in textual criticism and dedicated much of his short
life to translating and interpreting the works of Aeschylus, and
even thirty years after his untimely death his notes formed the
basis for an influential edition of the Oresteia. Although
Headlam's subtitle does not name the target of his 'criticism',
this book is in fact an impassioned attack on the style and method
of editing employed by A. W. Verrall in Seven Against Thebes in
1887, and Agamemnon in 1889. Headlam condemns Verrall's
'rationalist' methods which in his view 'required outspoken
criticism'. The young Headlam painstakingly dissects Verrall's work
on Aeschylus, pointing out the errors, inconsistencies and
shortcomings of the texts and proposing his own editorial methods.
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