Henry Rushton Fairclough his alma mater. Fairclough was also a guest professor for Latin and Greek at Harvard University, and simultaneously president of the American Philological Association; as which he held an official speech titled "The Classics and our Twentieth-century Poets", which was printed in the following year. In 1927, Fairclough retired from Stanford University, but still taught as a guest professor at Amherst College until 1929. Fairclough's research was focused on Roman poets. He wrote translations and bilingual editions of Plautus and Terence, the works of Vergil, and the satires and epistles of Horace. Further, he published text critical and exegetical individual
Satires of Circumstance Satires of Circumstance Satires of Circumstance is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1914. It includes the 18 poem sequence "Poems 1912-13" on the death of Hardy's wife Emma - extended to the now-classic 21 poems in "Collected Poems" of 1919 - widely regarded to comprise the best work of his poetic career. The collection's title was picked by the publisher, and disapproved of by Hardy, emphasising as it did the 15 light-hearted satires and sketches of 1910, at the expense of the Poems of 1912-13 themselves, as well as of the 39