Works
Highet wrote voluminously. He is remembered today for:
- An Outline of Homer (1935)
- The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (1949)
- The Art of Teaching (1950)
- Man's Unconquerable Mind (1954)
- Juvenal the Satirist: A Study (1954)
- The Anatomy of Satire (1962)
- The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
- Another solution (1951) one of Highet's few fictional pieces, published in Harper's Magazine.
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