Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (27 August 1886 - 2 February 1978) was a classical scholar at Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

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 specialising in poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

.

He was primarily associated with Trinity College

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

, being a fellow of it from 1911 on, interrupted only by a period as Assistant Master of Eton College

Eton College

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, 1914-1925. He was the Brereton Reader in Classics

Classics

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 from 1947 to 1951.

Gow's notable work includes editions of Theocritus

Theocritus

Theocritus , the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC.-Life:Little is known of Theocritus beyond what can be inferred from his writings. We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems commonly attributed to him have little claim to...

, Machon

Machon

Machon was a playwright of the New Comedy.He was born in Corinth or Sicyon, and lived in Alexandria. Two fragments of his work survive, along with 462 verses of a book of anecdotes of the words and deeds of notorious Athenians, preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus. Dioscorides wrote an...

, and the Greek Anthology

Greek Anthology

The Greek Anthology is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature...

. He was closely associated with A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman

Alfred Edward Housman , usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900...

, and was a friend of A. F. Scholfield, a classical scholar who was Librarian of Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Library

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While at Eton, Gow was George Orwell

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...

's tutor. Orwell consulted him in 1927 when he was planning to become a writer and maintained contact with him.

Works

• A. E. Housman A Sketch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936)
• ed., Theocritus (Cambridge, 1952)
• ed., Bucolici Graeci (Oxford Classical Texts
  Oxford Classical Texts
  Oxford Classical Texts , or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, is a series of books published by Oxford University Press. It contains texts of ancient Greek and Latin literature, such as Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid, in the original language with a critical apparatus...
  
  ) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952) ISBN 0-19-814517-9
• ed. (with A. F. Scholfield), Nicander: the poems and poetical fragments (Cambridge, 1953)
• The Greek Anthology: Sources and Ascriptions (London, 1958)
• ed. (with Denys Page
  Denys Page
  Sir Denys Lionel Page was a British classical scholar at Oxford and Cambridge.-Early life:Born at Reading, Page was the son of Frederick Harold Dunn Page, a chartered civil engineer of the Great Western Railway, and his wife Elsie Daniels. He was educated at St...
  
  ), The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams (Cambridge, 1965), 2 vols.
• Machon: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1965)
• Letters from Cambridge