T. S. Eliot was rude: "As a poet, Mr. Murray is merely a very insignificant follower of the pre-Raphaelite movement." (from Euripides and Professor Murray, an essay in The Sacred Wood (1920)). Swinburne was in fact a youthful enthusiasm of Murray's, and Eliot's identification of it has stuck; but Murray probably preferred Tennyson for content among the Victorians (Mary Berenson reported this in 1903, and it still held good 50 years on (West 1984, p. 249). West, Francis (1984). Gilbert Murray: A Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN978-0312327200.
R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life I p. 334; early 1905. Foster also notes that Yeats and Murray corresponded about the Stage Society. Yeats was being provocative: Oedipus Rex could not be publicly presented on the British stage [3], because the incest was unacceptable to the censors. Foster (II p. 338) notes that it was two decades later that the play was actually performed, but by then Yeats had adapted the Murray text, and R. C. Jebb's, and made cuts, for a rather different result.
"... after Lloyd George had become the Independent Liberal in 1931, many remaining Liberals participated in the Next Five Years group, who proposed an aggressive industrial policy and management of banking and finance similar to the Yellow Book. It is true that the group called themselves non-partisan, and in fact one of the core members was Harold Macmillan. However, as Freeden indicates, the Liberal tendency of the group was obvious as a whole. Geoffrey Crowther and Salter, both Liberals, were responsible for the first section of the book dealing with domestic affairs. The signatories included Layton, Rowntree, Cadbury, Isaac Foot, H. A. L. Fisher, Gilbert Murray, J. L. Hammond, and Hobson, other than several Liberal MPs." From paper by Tomoari Matsunaga, PDFArchived 21 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
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Stephen Weldon, writing on a humanist siteArchived 6 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine, argues that In many ways, the failure of nerve thesis was merely one version of an anticlerical view of history common during the Enlightenment period, a view that depicted the religionists as cowards and the rationalists as heroes. Murray's innovation was to encapsulate that attitude in a compelling argument, expressing historical causality in terms of individual psychology. Weldon goes on to point to the way Sidney Hook later took up the theme.
Oxfam was not initially known by that name at that point, post-WWII. "A leading figure in this campaign was Professor Gilbert Murray (1866–1957). ... He was a founder of the League of Nations Union, a citizen support group for international peace. As famine in Greece became severe in the autumn of 1941 the League of Nations Union appointed a 'Committee on Starvation in Occupied Countries'. In October 1941 Murray and Lord Robert Cecil, Viscount Chelwood (1864–1958), joint presidents, sought a meeting with the Ministry of Economic Warfare to establish whether anything more could be done to relieve starvation in occupied countries. ... Murray remained in Oxford after his retirement and was closely associated with the development of Oxfam as a founder and trustee. After the war he was joint president, 1945–1947 and 1949–1957, and sole president, 1947–1949, of the United Nations Association." "About Us – History", Oxfam Archived 17 July 2004 at the Wayback Machine
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Philip's elder brother Lawrence married Jean Asquith, and had a reputation as an artist.[4]
In the case of the Quaker Stephen Hobhouse, Murray wrote an introduction to a pamphlet I appeal unto Caesar: the case of the conscientious objector by his mother Margaret. His father, Henry Hobhouse, was a Liberal MP from 1885 to 1906, and although a 'country squire' (Concise Dictionary of National Biography) was a Privy Councillor; and brother to L. T. Hobhouse, an old friend of Murray's. Murray was incensed at the treatment meted out to Stephen Hobhouse, who had been rejected as not a genuine objector of conscience (The Soul as It is and How to Deal with It, 1918 paperArchived 3 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine), and further wrote an introduction to Hobhouse's post-war book on prisons.
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He was a noted and popular lecturer. Amongst those on whom he had a particular influence was Gilbert Highet.[2]
"Robert L. Fowler, who has read and reflected on a huge amount of Murray's work, places him in context: a Liberal concerned with social organization, a League of Nations supporter, a vegetarian offended by the slaughter of the Gadarene swine, decent and generous, deeply influenced by the historicism of Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Murray wrote Five Stages of Greek Religion in part to 'counteract Jane Harrison's exaltation of the chthonic spirits by a vigorous defence of the Olympian deities', who for Murray characterized the Greek mind during the period of 'true Hellenism' ending with the end of the Peloponnesian War. Murray's gods were morally, intellectually, and politically good, opposing the 'megalomania and blood-lust' of earlier Greek religion and favoring the city-state." – from Daniel P. Tompkins. "William M. Calder III (ed.), The Cambridge Ritualists Reconsidered. Illinois Classical Studies". Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review). Archived from the original on 1 May 2001.. Wiliamowitz and Murray had been in touch as correspondents since the mid-1890s (Wilson1987, p. 55). Wilson, Duncan (1987). Gilbert Murray OM. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0192117816.
"... after Lloyd George had become the Independent Liberal in 1931, many remaining Liberals participated in the Next Five Years group, who proposed an aggressive industrial policy and management of banking and finance similar to the Yellow Book. It is true that the group called themselves non-partisan, and in fact one of the core members was Harold Macmillan. However, as Freeden indicates, the Liberal tendency of the group was obvious as a whole. Geoffrey Crowther and Salter, both Liberals, were responsible for the first section of the book dealing with domestic affairs. The signatories included Layton, Rowntree, Cadbury, Isaac Foot, H. A. L. Fisher, Gilbert Murray, J. L. Hammond, and Hobson, other than several Liberal MPs." From paper by Tomoari Matsunaga, PDFArchived 21 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
"Robert L. Fowler, who has read and reflected on a huge amount of Murray's work, places him in context: a Liberal concerned with social organization, a League of Nations supporter, a vegetarian offended by the slaughter of the Gadarene swine, decent and generous, deeply influenced by the historicism of Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Murray wrote Five Stages of Greek Religion in part to 'counteract Jane Harrison's exaltation of the chthonic spirits by a vigorous defence of the Olympian deities', who for Murray characterized the Greek mind during the period of 'true Hellenism' ending with the end of the Peloponnesian War. Murray's gods were morally, intellectually, and politically good, opposing the 'megalomania and blood-lust' of earlier Greek religion and favoring the city-state." – from Daniel P. Tompkins. "William M. Calder III (ed.), The Cambridge Ritualists Reconsidered. Illinois Classical Studies". Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review). Archived from the original on 1 May 2001.. Wiliamowitz and Murray had been in touch as correspondents since the mid-1890s (Wilson1987, p. 55). Wilson, Duncan (1987). Gilbert Murray OM. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0192117816.
In the case of the Quaker Stephen Hobhouse, Murray wrote an introduction to a pamphlet I appeal unto Caesar: the case of the conscientious objector by his mother Margaret. His father, Henry Hobhouse, was a Liberal MP from 1885 to 1906, and although a 'country squire' (Concise Dictionary of National Biography) was a Privy Councillor; and brother to L. T. Hobhouse, an old friend of Murray's. Murray was incensed at the treatment meted out to Stephen Hobhouse, who had been rejected as not a genuine objector of conscience (The Soul as It is and How to Deal with It, 1918 paperArchived 3 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine), and further wrote an introduction to Hobhouse's post-war book on prisons.
Oxfam was not initially known by that name at that point, post-WWII. "A leading figure in this campaign was Professor Gilbert Murray (1866–1957). ... He was a founder of the League of Nations Union, a citizen support group for international peace. As famine in Greece became severe in the autumn of 1941 the League of Nations Union appointed a 'Committee on Starvation in Occupied Countries'. In October 1941 Murray and Lord Robert Cecil, Viscount Chelwood (1864–1958), joint presidents, sought a meeting with the Ministry of Economic Warfare to establish whether anything more could be done to relieve starvation in occupied countries. ... Murray remained in Oxford after his retirement and was closely associated with the development of Oxfam as a founder and trustee. After the war he was joint president, 1945–1947 and 1949–1957, and sole president, 1947–1949, of the United Nations Association." "About Us – History", Oxfam Archived 17 July 2004 at the Wayback Machine
Stephen Weldon, writing on a humanist siteArchived 6 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine, argues that In many ways, the failure of nerve thesis was merely one version of an anticlerical view of history common during the Enlightenment period, a view that depicted the religionists as cowards and the rationalists as heroes. Murray's innovation was to encapsulate that attitude in a compelling argument, expressing historical causality in terms of individual psychology. Weldon goes on to point to the way Sidney Hook later took up the theme.
First published in: The Athenian Drama, vol. III: Euripides (Euripides: Hippolytus; The Bacchae. Aristophanes: The Frogs. Translated into English rhyming verse), 1902 (OCLC6591082); many reprints (together, separate, repackaged).
