Richard Jenkyns (professor)

Following his undergraduate career, Jenkyns was awarded a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford in 1972.^[1] Jenkyns presently serves as Emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition,^[2] He also remains an emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford,^[3]

• “The Victorians and Ancient Greece” (Oxford, Blackwell, 1980)
• “Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus and Juvenal” (London, Duckworth, 1982)
• “The Legacy of Rome: a New Appraisal (Oxford University Press, 1992)
• “Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance” (London, HarperCollins, 1992)
• “Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil” (Bloomsbury, 1992)
• “Virgil’s Experience” (Oxford University Press, 1998)
• “A Fine Brush on Ivory: an Appreciation of Jane Austen” (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• “Westminster Abbey” (Profile, 2004)
• “God, Space & City in the Roman Imagination” (Oxford University Press, 2013)
• “Classical Literature” (London, Pelican, 2015)