Niall Rudd Professor of Latin at Bristol University, has translated The Satires and Epistles of Horace and The Satires of Persius. He is the author of Lines of Enquiry, The Satires of Horace and Johnson’s Juvenal.
At Mrs H.G. Wells’s funeral on 22 October 1927, Virginia Woolf was surprised that HGW’s ‘typewritten sheets’ were read by ‘a shaggy, shabby old scholar’, T.E....
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