Reflections of the English Tradition in James Henry’s Poetry

Authors

Ryan D. Stewart, Brigham Young University
Dr. John Talbot, Brigham Young University

Keywords

English tradition, James Henry, poetry, Irish classicist

College

Humanities

Department

English

Abstract

James Henry (1798-1876) was an Irish classicist most well known for his long and eccentric commentary of Virgil’s Aeneid—Aeneidea, or Critical, Exegetical and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis—and known to some extent for his work as a physician and his penchant for pamphleteering. In the mid-1980s, however, Christopher Ricks—a prominent Victorian scholar—discovered a privately printed volume of Henry’s poetry “‘unopened’, as the book dealers say,” (meaning the pages had not been cut) as he was browsing the stacks at the Cambridge Library. He included some of Henry’s poetry in the New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987), which he edited. He went on to publish a selection of his favorite Henry poems in the Selected Works of James Henry (2002), which he also edited.

Recommended Citation

Stewart, Ryan D. and Talbot, Dr. John (2013) "Reflections of the English Tradition in James Henry’s Poetry," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 727.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/727