[AGL] Re: Arrowsmith

[Frances Morey]

Which one's the play:
 
SEARCH: ARROWSMITH WILLIAM 
1 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / Alcestis. / New York / 1974 
Recall -->PA 3975 A5 A4 1974 Fine Arts Library
PA 3975 A5 A4 1974 Fine Arts Library COPY 2
PA 3975 A5 A4 1974 Classics Library

2 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / Antonioni : the poet of images. / New York / 1995 
Recall -->PN 1998.3 A58 A77 1995 PCL Stacks

3 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / The Bacchae. / Chicago / 1968 
Recall -->PA 3975 A14 PCL Stacks
PA 3975 A14 PCL Stacks

4 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / The birds. / Ann Arbor / 1961 
Recall -->PA 3877 A8 1961 PCL Stacks COPY 1
PA 3877 A8 1961 PCL Stacks COPY 2
PA 3877 A8 1961 Stephan Poetry Collection PCL Stacks 6A USE IN LIBRARY ONLY
PA 3877 A8 1961 Classics Library
882 AR45OTA PCL Stacks COPY 1 IN COLLECTIONS DEPOSIT LIB - ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK 
882 AR45OTA PCL Stacks COPY 2 IN COLLECTIONS DEPOSIT LIB - ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK 

5 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / The birds. / (Ann Arbor) / 1969 
Recall -->PA 3877 A2 1969B PCL Stacks
PA 3877 A2 1969B PCL Stacks COPY 2
PA 3877 A2 1969B PCL Stacks COPY 3
PA 3877 A2 1969B Fine Arts Library

6 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / The birds. / Ann Arbor / 1961 
PA 3877 A8 1961 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY

7 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / The birds. / New York / 1984 
Recall -->PA 3877 A2 1984 PCL Stacks

8 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / The Chimera; a rough beast. / New York / 1942-1947 
Check HRC holdings 
http://auden.hrc.utexas.edu/serials/search.html 
AP 2 C51541 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY

9 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / The clouds. / Ann Arbor / 1962 
Recall -->PA 3877 N8 1962 PCL Stacks
PA 3877 N8 1962 Stephan Poetry Collection PCL Stacks 6A USE IN LIBRARY ONLY
882 AR45NTA PCL Stacks IN COLLECTIONS DEPOSIT LIB - ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK 
882 AR45NTA PCL Stacks COPY 2 IN COLLECTIONS DEPOSIT LIB - ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK 
882 AR45NTA PCL Stacks COPY 3 IN COLLECTIONS DEPOSIT LIB - ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK 
882 AR45NTA PCL Stacks COPY 4 IN COLLECTIONS DEPOSIT LIB - ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK 

10 Arrowsmith, William, 1924- / The clouds. / (Ann Arbor) / 1969 
Recall -->PA 3877 A2 1969B PCL Stacks
PA 3877 A2 1969B PCL Stacks COPY 2
PA 3877 A2 1969B PCL Stacks COPY 3
PA 3877 A2 1969B Fine Arts Library

Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:

I always like John Sullivan's translation of Petronius. In many ways, I 
thought as good as Arrowsmiths. Really liked Sullivan and his wry English 
view of "things Texan."

wgJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" 
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:52 PM
Subject: [AGL] Re: Arrowsmith


>i was forwarded a number of remarks about UT classics
> professors Arrowsmith and John Sullivan.
>
> I had 2 classes with Arrowsmith, 1 with John Sullivan.
> Sullivan's was on Latin lyric poets and I remember
> his remarks on textual problems being acute and
> grounded in Latin language competence. This is
> rare among American classics professors, but
> Sullivan was an Englishman and educated there.
>
> In one of Arrowsmith's seminars we read Apuleius'
> The Golden Ass. The other was on Euripides about
> whom Arrowsmith had a new theory, namely
> "modality." When pressed to define modality he
> was never able to come up with anything that made
> sense. The very pleasant seminar setting was in his and Jean's house out 
> on Red Bud Trail. After the
> seminar he would serve cookies and sangria mixed in a kitchen pot: nasty.
> As for Arrowsmith's competence in Greek and Latin,
> he seemed to know Greek fairly well. As for his
> competence in Latin, a much more difficult language,
> there is an amusing anecdote in a memorial to him
> written by Saul Bellow. Bellow knew him at Princeton where they became 
> friends. In Rome once walking about together a beggar accosted them, 
> questioned them as to their professions and learning that Arrowsmith was a 
> classics professor, spouted out a reel of memorized Latin and challenged 
> Arrowsmith to identify the author. He undoubtedly pronounced Latin in 
> Catholic school style with "ch"s and soft "g"s. Arrowsmith at a total loss 
> told Bellow that it wasn't real Latin, just mumbojumbo. I could never 
> decide whether Bellow realized that Arrowsmith was bullshitting him or 
> not. Probably not or why put the
> story in a memorial to a friend? I gave a copy of the piece to classics 
> prof David Armstrong for his reaction. His conclusion was the same: 
> Arrowsmith didn't have a clue. Hard position to be in. How to explain
> to Bellow that American classicists don't really know Latin and Greek like 
> Englishmen and continentals?
> Bellow's reminiscence/memorial to Arrowsmith is in his "It all adds up."
> 

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