Paget Toynbee

Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855–1932) was a UK Dante scholar.[1] Robert Hollander has described Toynbee as 'the most influential Dantean scholar of his time'.[2]

Toynbee also provided thousands of quotes for the Oxford English Dictionary.[3]

Works

  • revised, 1968, Charles S. Singleton

His wife

Legacy

In the years immediately before his death, Toynbee donated manuscripts, papers and correspondence relating to Dante and to Horace Walpole to the Bodleian Library. Further papers were bequeathed by him in 1932.[4]

The Paget Toynbee lectures on Dante have taken place annually in Oxford since 1995.[5]

References

  1. C. M. Ady, ‘Toynbee, Paget Jackson (1855–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
  2. Robert Hollander in 'Introduction' to Paget Toynbee, Dante Alighieri His Life and Works (New York: Dover Publication, 2005) ISBN 0-486-44340-X
  3. Mugglestone, Lynda (ed.), Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest (Oxford, 2000) "Appendix II. OED Personalia"
  4. 'Collection Level Description: Paget Toynbee Manuscripts', Bodlein Library catalogue, University of Oxford, 21 January 2009.
  5. Martin McLaughlin and Michelangelo Zaccarello(eds.) Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures. 1995–2003. (Oxford: Oxbow, 2010) ISBN 978-1-900755-99-3
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