Paget Toynbee
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Paget Jackson Toynbee was a UK Dante
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 scholar. Robert Hollander has described Toynbee as 'the most influential Dantean scholar of his time'.

Works

  • The Letters of Horace Walpole. 16 volumes. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903-5). Editor.
  • 'A Chronological List of English Translations from Dante from Chaucer to the present day' in The twenty-ninth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Mass.) 1905 (1906)
  • Dante Alighieri His Life and Works (1910)
  • 'An unrecorded seventeenth century version of the Vita di Dante of Leonardo Bruni' in The twenty-ninth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Mass.) 1910 (1912)
  • Concise Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914).
  • The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915). Editor
  • 'History of the letters of Dante from the fourteenth century to the present day' in The thirty-sixth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Mass.) 1917 (1919)
  • 'Dante in English art' in The thirty-eighth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Mass.) 1919 (1921)
  • Dante Studies (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921)
  • 'The Oxford Dante' in The forty-second, forty-third, and forty-fourth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Mass.) 1926 (1926)
  • Thomas Gray
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    , Correspondence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935). Editor with Leonard Whibley
    Leonard Whibley
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  • Dantis Allegherii Epistolae: The Letters of Dante (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966). Editor

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
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. Further papers were bequeathed by him in 1932.

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