Reviews by Duncan Forbes about the works of others and reviews by others about the work of Duncan Forbes.
This series includes miscellaneous personal items and mementos collected by Forbes during his time at Clare.
Includes combined programme and menu for the Clare College Dilettante Society, 5th May 1947; menu for the Clare College Clarence Society Scottish Dinner, signed by those present at the dinner, 27th November 1954; menu for the Clarence Society, signed bythose present, 1st March 1976
Correspondence with J.R. Balow and copies of some of Balow's work on the Scottish enlightenment.
Includes notes made from mss relating to Homer, various French mss (particularly those written in Paris and Cante in the 16th century), mss relating to Achilles, Guillaume Paquelin's work on Homer.
Notes concerning Homeric allegories. Some related offprints with annotations by Ford.
Notes concerning neo-stoicism
Notes concerning the works of Louise Labe.
Offprints of journal articles by Ford. Includes:
(1) 'La Passion Lucretienne dans la poesie de Ronsard', Poetes, princes et collectionneurs, 2011
(2) 'Hercule et la themesolairea Fontainebleau: la porte doreeat Le Satyre de Ronsard', Cite des hommes, cite de dieu, 2003
(3) 'What song the sirens sang..: The representation of Odysseus in Ronsard's poetry', Ronsard - figure de la variete, 2002
(4) Neo-Latin drama: Forms functions, receptions, 2008
(5) Conrad gesner et le fabuleux manteau in Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, XLVII, No. 2; 'Montaigne's Homer: Poet or Myth?', Montaigne Studies, 2005
(6) Ronsard the painter: A reading of 'des peintures contenues dedans un tableau', French Studies, 1986
(7) 'Ronsard's erotic diptych: Le ravissement de Cephale and La defloration de lede', French Studies, 1986
(8) 'Comprendre Homere a la Renaissance', Bulletin de la Classe des Lettres, 2010
(9) 'George Buchanan et Montaigne', Montaigne Studies, 2001
(10) The AndrogyneMyth in Montaigne's De l'amitie', The Art of Reading, 1998
(11) 'Le commentaire de Claude Mignault sur les emblemes d'alciat', Les Cahiers de L'Humanisme, 2002
(12) 'Justus Lipsius and Sir Philip Sidney', Bulletin de l'institut historique Belge de Rome, 1998
(13) 'Du bellay et les mythes Homeriques', Histoire et Litterature au siecle de Monatigne, 2001
(14) 'The Regency of 1574 in the discours merveilleux and in the poems of Jean-Antoine de Baif', Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 2001
(15) 'Leonora and Neaera: A consideration of George Buchanan's erotic poetry', Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 1978
(16) Ronsard et l'emploi de l'allegorie dans le second livre des hymnes', Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 1981
(17) 'Carolus Utenhovius (1536-1600): A tale of two cities, Koninkiljke Brill NV, 2011
(18) 'Homer in the French Renaissance', Renaissance Quarterly, 2006
Obituaries written by Ford. Includes obituary for L.W. Forster that appeared in Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letterkunde, 1999.