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    Gilbert Arthur Highet (/ˈhaɪɪt/; June 22, 1906 – January 20, 1978) was a Scottish American classicist, academic writer, intellectual critic, and literary...
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    classics scholar Gilbert Highet. The pair married on September 22, 1932, and moved to New York City in 1937. The pair had one child, Keith Highet, who was born...
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  • Fiona Highet, Scottish entomologist Gilbert Highet (1906–1978), Scottish classicist Harry Highet (1892–1989), New Zealand engineer John Highet (1886–1950)...
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    popular lecturer. Amongst those on whom he had a particular influence was Gilbert Highet.[2] "Greek historical writing, and Apollo; two lectures delivered before...
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    Retrieved 27 January 2015. Gilbert Highet. 1945. Bruegel's Rustic wedding. American Magazine of Art 38. 274-276. Gilbert Highet. 1967. Where is the Bridegroom...
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  • Werner (1945). Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture. Translated by Gilbert Highet. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 13. Cawthorn, Katrina (2013)...
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    conceived Sha Na Na, coined the term "greaser" in 1967 after he heard Gilbert Highet read the line "The glory that was Greece" from Edgar Allan Poe's poem...
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    Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature of Gilbert Highet (1949) and The Classical Heritage and Its Beneficiaries of R. R. Bolgar...
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    508 H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Classical Literature (1967) p. 508-9 Gilbert Highet, Juvenal the Satirist (1960) p. 184 C. S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love...
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    R.H.S. (ed.). Friedrich Engels: A Biography. Translated by Gilbert Highet; Helen Highet. Alfred A. Knopf. ASIN B0006AN5IS. Royle, Camilla (2020), A Rebel's...
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  • 2022.) N. Flores-Gonzales, School Kids/Street Kids (2002) p. 107-11 Gilbert Highet, Juvenal the Satirist (1962) p. 115 B. Ford ed., The Age of Shakespeare...
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  • Portable Library and with authors like Joseph Campbell, Ludwig Bemelmans, Gilbert Highet, Lionel Trilling, Arthur Miller, George Gamow, Shirley Jackson, Willy...
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    ideas into a shortlived unity and, as suddenly as a flame, died. – Gilbert Highet Some of these qualities can be found, for example, in this stanza from...
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    Formung des griechischen Menschen, 3 vols. (German, 1933–1947; trans. by Gilbert Highet as Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, 1939–1944) Humanistische Reden...
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  • he's Jewish, or because he's black or gay or Hispanic or homeless." Gilbert Highet, a Book-of-the-Month Club judge described it as "the saddest novel I...
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    Soviets Ian Fleming Alexander Halpern — Menshevik and ex-Freemason Gilbert Highet – historian, professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia University H....
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    www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-07. Jaeger, Werner Wilhelm; Highet, Gilbert (1939). Paideia: the ideals of Greek culture. Internet Archive. Oxford...
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    the tradition that Juvenal was exiled. Others, however—particularly Gilbert Highet—regard the exile as factual, and these scholars also supply a concrete...
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  • serious reading" available in a paperback-book format. Literary historian Gilbert Highet called it a "very important and interesting series". Parke, Mary Eugenia...
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    Classical Scholarship 1300–1850, Oxford University Press, 1976, p. 1; Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition, Oxford University Press, 1949, p. 81–88. Famous...
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  • dangers" of writing about a subject that's "Shakespeare territory". Gilbert Highet, writing in the Book of the Month Club News for February 1971, had this...
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  • which is loosely based on the experiences of MacInnes and her husband Gilbert Highet. The plot follows two newlyweds who spy on the Nazis for the British...
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    Press[dead link] [Retrieved 5 April 2015] Werner Jaeger (translated by Gilbert Highet), Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: II. In Search of the Divine...
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    "How to Read") 'logopoeia', "the dance of the intellect among words." Gilbert Highet, in Poets in a Landscape, attributed this to Propertius' use of mythic...
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  • Hetherington (1803–1865), poet, historian and Free Church of Scotland minister Gilbert Highet (1906–1978), classicist and critic James Hogg (1770–1835), poet, novelist...
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    of anthropology Gilbert Highet, classicist and literary historian Richard Claverhouse Jebb, classical scholar and politician Gilbert Murray, classical...
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    nobelprize.org "Carl Spitteler | Swiss poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Gilbert Highet (1952). "A Neglected Masterpiece: Olympian Spring". The Antioch Review...
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  • The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato, translated by Gilbert Highet. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1944, 337, n. 12.  https://archive...
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    Epicurean, Chapter XXVIII A. C. Benson, Walter Pater (London, 1906), Ch.IV; Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature...
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  • a more pleasant spot.: 27 : 74  By contrast, Juvenal (at least in Gilbert Highet’s reconstruction) was subjected to deportatio; and though his sentence...
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