Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal

Famous for his visionary book, The Greeks and the Irrational (1951), E. R. Dodds was not only a remarkable classical scholar, but also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture. This volume explores his life, career, and legacy, shedding light on his less well-known work on psychic research and the reconstruction of German education after the Second World War. A group of memoirs by some of his pupils and friends offer a glimpse of the man whose work had a lasting influence on his field, and who was perhaps the last classicist to play a significant role in British literary culture.