Notes by Fr Gerard Hopkins SJ on the Roman historian Tacitus
- IE IJA J/11/15
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- [1884]-[1889]
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Holograph notes by Fr Gerard Hopkins SJ on the Roman historian Tacitus, entitled ‘Tacitus’ style’, whose ‘qualities’ can be ‘summed up in three things’ – ‘terseness…variety or studied irregularity…poetical colouring,’ giving an example of each. Notes made for classes in University College.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889, Jesuit priest and poet