John William Mackail

John William Mackail (1859–1945) was a Scottish classical scholar and man of letters, translator of Virgil’s Aeneid into English prose, biographer of William Morris, and Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1906 to 1911.

With H. C. Beeching and J. B. B. Nichols he wrote the verse volumes Love in Idleness (1883) and Love’s Looking-Glass (1891).