Irish-born British classical philologist (1927–2015)
William James Niall Rudd (23 June 1927 – 5 October 2015) was an Irish-born British classical scholar.[1]
Life and work
Rudd was born in
Dublin and studied Classics at
Trinity College, Dublin. He then taught Latin at the Universities of
Hull and
Manchester.[2] From 1958 to 1968 he was Associate Professor of Latin at
University College, Toronto. In 1968 he returned to England and taught for five years as a professor of Latin at the
University of Liverpool. In 1973 he moved to the
University of Bristol to the chair of Latin, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. From 1976 to 1979 he was Director (Head of Department) of the Department of Classics and Archaeology.[3]
After retirement Rudd returned to Liverpool and was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow there. Trinity College Dublin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1998 (DLitt). Rudd died of
Melanoma after a long illness (
Alzheimer's) on 5 October 2015 at St. John's Hospice on the
Wirral.
Rudd worked intensively with Latin literature, especially Roman poetry, and its reception in English literature of the modern age. He wrote books, monographs and articles about works of
Cicero, and on the satires of
Horace and
Juvenal whose work he presented in English translation. This work has been published in two collections (1994, 2005). In addition, he published, in 1994, an autobiographical record of his childhood and youth in Ireland.
Bibliography
The Satires of Horace. A Study (1966) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [4]
The Satires of Horace and Persius. A verse translation with an introduction and notes (1973) London: Harmondsworth Press
Essays on Classical Literature, Selected from Arion and introduced by Niall Rudd (1974) Cambridge: Heffer Press
Lines of Enquiry – Studies in Latin Poetry (1976) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
with Edward Courtney: Juvenal: Satires I, III, X (1977) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press
T. E. Page: Schoolmaster Extraordinary (1981) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press
The Satires of Horace (1982) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press
Themes in Roman Satire (1986) London: Duckworth Press
Cicero: 'De Legibus I'. (1987) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press
Horace, Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones (‘Ars Poetica’) (1989) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Juvenal. The Satires (1991) Oxford: Oxford University Press
The Classical Tradition in Operation: Chaucer/Virgil, Shakespeare/Plautus, Pope/Horace, Tennyson/Lucretius, Pound/Propertius (1994) Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Pale Green, Light Orange. A Portrait of Bourgeois Ireland 1930-1950 (1994) Dublin: Lilliput Press[2]
with JGF Powell: Marcus Tullius Cicero: 'The Republic' and 'The Laws' (1998) Oxford: Oxford University Press
with
Robin G. M. Nisbet: A Commentary on Horace, Odes, Book III (2004) Oxford: Oxford University Press
Horace, Odes and Epodes (2004) Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library)[5]
The Common Spring. Essays on Latin and English Poetry. (2005) Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press
Lines of Enquiry. Studies in Latin Poetry (2005) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Samuel Johnson: The Latin Poems (2005) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press
Landor’s Latin Poems: Fifty Pieces (2010) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press