Personality, Appreciation and Literary Education: Harrap's Poetry and Life Series, 1911-1930
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A minor but arresting fact about Harrap’s ‘Poetry and Life’ series is that it quotes non-English-language poetry entirely in the original, with no accompanying translation. This is hardly the most obvious feature of the series, since it comprises over thirty-five critical biographies of canonical poets, only four of whom — Horace, Schiller, Victor Hugo and Dante — are neither British nor American.1 It is nonetheless a puzzling editorial decision to have made — perhaps even (in Sir Humphrey Appleby’s sense) a ‘courageous’ one — but clearly quite deliberate, and with no half-measures: not only are there no translations provided on the page, or in footnotes or appendices, but there are also no recommended translations as such (though some of the critical works recommended in the bibliographies to the volumes were more open to compromise in this regard, and do contain translations). The quantity of quoted verse in these volumes, furthermore, is quite large: quoting whole poems wherever possible was a stated policy for the series, and a quarter or more of the 150-odd pages in most volumes was standard. And as if to make things yet more challenging to the Anglophone reader, Schiller’s poetry is quoted throughout in black-letter German (though extracts from his letters, by contrast, are given in translation).
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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 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".