Stuart Gillespie, Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow

Stuart Gillespie is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow whose research interests lie in English literary classicism and translation. He is the founding editor of Translation and Literature (Edinburgh UP, 1992-present), now the pre-eminent academic journal in this field, and was from 2001 joint general editor of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, co-editing two of its five volumes. There followed The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (co-edited with Philip Hardie; CUP, 2007) and the monograph English Translation and Classical Reception: Towards a New Literary History (Wiley, 2011), the first book to address a range of English classical translations found only in manuscript.

"This book represents an extraordinary accumulation of scholarly labour and, as its contents are digested over the coming years, it will change our understanding of the reception of the poetry of antiquity in England during these centuries." - Paul Botley, International Journal of the Classical Tradition

"The groundbreaking book ... complements two related multivolume projects, The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English (OHLTE) and The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL). ... This collection of newly recovered manuscript texts not only immediately alters the landscape of Classical translation studies, but also suggests that more (indeed, many more) manuscripts remain to be rediscovered." - John Jacobs, CJ-Online

"[Gillespie] is clearly an expert, and has published widely in this area [...]A prodigious amount of scholarly labour has gone into sourcing these manuscripts from far-flung libraries. The editing is of a high quality, especially the brief but useful biographical notes. Without obtruding, [Gillespie] gives us just enough context to appreciate the confident inventiveness of educated Englishmen (and some Scots) of this time, when the study of Greek and Latin formed pretty well the entire school and university curriculum." - Anthony Verity, Classics for All

"this is a book that reveals a hidden world, and Gillespie's editing and annotation are exemplary. Designed as a resource for scholars of literature and literary history, it happens also to be an enjoyable bed-side book." - Richard Jenkyns, Times Literary Supplement

"This book represents an extraordinary accumulation of scholarly labour and, as its contents are digested over the coming years, it will change our understanding of the reception of the poetry of antiquity in England during these centuries ... Gillespies work has now made this familiar landscape immeasurably more varied and complex" - Paul Botley, International Journal of the Classical Tradition