“Admiral Hosier’s Ghost”, Military Gothic, and the Literary Marketplace
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Richard Glover is not known as a gothic writer. Glover forged his literary career at the end of the Augustan age, and his major work, the nine-book neoclassical epic Leonidas (1737), was praised by Augustan worthies. He remained an Augustan long after the reading public’s appetite for neoclassicism had faded: his twelve-book reworking of Leonidas (1770), like his posthumously published three-volume poem The Athenaid (1787), added little to his literary standing and much to his later reputation as one of the century’s “second-rate writers of longer poems.” Glover might have slipped from the pages of literary history altogether had he not also penned a short party political ballad, “Admiral Hosier’s Ghost” (1740). “Admiral Hosier’s Ghost” was not included in the only collection of Glover’s poetry published during the author’s lifetime in 1743, but the poem was reprinted regularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the mid nineteenth century, the literary editor Robert Chambers observed that “[a] popular vitality has been awarded to a ballad of Glover’s, while his epics have sunk into oblivion.” Nearly two decades later, Robert Inglis, editor of Gleanings from the English Poets, Chaucer to Tennyson (1862), introduced Glover’s poem even less sympathetically as the work of a “LONDON merchant, who published some elaborate poems in blank verse, which are now little known. His ballad of Admiral Hosier’s Ghost is the only piece now read.”
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".