Explorations

by Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet was a noted Latin/Classics scholar that taought at Columbia. This book is a series of essays about writers and writing.

Essays

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Critic and classical scholar, Gilbert Highet was born in Scotland, educated at Oxford, and taught at Oxford and Columbia for forty years. Married to novelist Helen MacInnes. Best known for teaching in the humanities in the UK and USA.

Reviews

[Wally Cook · Rating 5 out of 5]

Explorations is a book filled with insights. Although it is somewhat dated, having been written thirty years ago, the essays are well written and meaningful. Highet is a wonderful synthesizer of diverse facts. For example, Highet traces the meaning of words and how their meaning may change in the course of 100 years -- thus the term "tory" initially meant an Irish bandit or revolutionary determined to repulse English rule of Ireland -- and within 100 years became the label for those American colonists that supported King George!

[Evan · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5