English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical SurveyFoster, Finley Melville Kendall
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English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey
Foster, Finley Melville Kendall
Greek literature -- Translations into English -- Bibliography; Thesis (Ph. D.)
_American Reprint: [The Minor Poems of Homer. Battle of the Frogs and
Mice; Hymns and Epigrams: translated by Parnell, Chapman, Shelley,
Congreve, and Hole. Introductions by H. N. __ Coleridge, and a translation
(by K. R. H. Mackenzie) of the life of Homer attributed to Herodotus.] New
York, 1872._
22. Odyssey. [Book XI] By Elijah Fenton. [In his Poetical Works] 1717. 8o
23. The Odyssey of Homer. [Translated into English verse by Pope, W.
Broome, and E. Fenton; with notes by W. Broome.] (A general view of the
Epic poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey, extracted from Bossu. Postscript,
by Mr. Pope. Homer’s Battle of the Frogs and Mice [translated by T.
Parnell], corrected by Mr. Pope.) 5 vol. 1725‐26.
_Reprinted: 1725‐26; 1745; 1758; 1760; 1763; 1768; 1771; 1778; 1805; 1811;
1811; 1853; 1858; 1870; 1873._
_American Reprints: Hartford, Conn. 1852‐55; [Edit. J. S. Watson. Bohn
Library.] Boston and Philadelphia, 1872‐76; [Chandos Library] New York,
1872‐76; 3 vol., New York, 1872‐76; [Edit. H. F. Cary] New York, 1872;
[Lovell’s Library] New York, 1880, 1884._
_Reprints of Pope’s translation of the Iliad and Odyssey published
together: 1732; 1736; 1743; 1750; 1750‐52; Glasgow, 1753; 1759; 1760;
1763; Edinburgh, 1769; 1771; Glasgow, 1771‐72; [British Poets] 1773; 1774;
[Johnson’s Works of the English Poets] 1779‐81; 1780; 1783; [Notes by
Wakefield] 1796; 1800; 1801; 1801; 1802; 1805‐06; 1809‐10; [Chalmer’s
English Poets] 1810; [Works of the Greek and Roman Poets] 1813; 1817;
[British Poets] 1822; [Sandford’s Works of the British Poets] 1822; 1833;
[Edit. Henry Francis Cary] 1872, 1890, [Lubbock’s Books] 1891, 1897;
[Edit. Theodore Alois Buckley] 1874, 1875, 1890, 1894; 1896; [World’s
Classics] 2 vol., 1902‐03; [Edit. A. J. Church] 2 vol., 1906‐07._
_American Reprints of Pope’s translation of the Iliad and Odyssey
published together: [Notes by W. C. Armstrong] Philadelphia, 1880; [Edit.
T. A. Buckley. In Albion Poets.] New York, 1894; [Intro. A. J. Church] 2
vol., 1907; [Edit. (Odyssey) E. S. Shumway and Waldo Shumway, (Iliad) C.
Elbert Rhodes] New York, 1911‐12._
24. Batrachomyomachia. H. Price. 1736. 8o
25. Iliad, Book I. H. Fitz‐Cotton. 1749. 8o
26. Iliad, Parts of Books X and XI, in imitation of the style of Milton.
Dr. W. Broome. [In Poems on Several Occasions] 1750. 8o
27. Iliad, Book VIII. S. Ashwick. 1750. 4o
28. Iliad translated from the Greek into blank verse. With notes, pointing
out the peculiar beauties of the original and the imitations of it by
succeeding poets. With remarks on Mr. Pope’s admired version. Book I,
being a specimen of the whole, which is to follow. Samuel Langley. 1767.
29. The Iliad. Translated [in prose] by James Macpherson. 2 vol., 1773. 4o
30. Hymn to Venus. [Translated by W. Congreve] [In Johnson’s English
Poets]. 1779‐81.
31. Hymn to Ceres, translated into English verse. By Robert Lucas. 1781.
32. Hymn to Venus, translated from the Greek, with notes, by I. Rittson.
1788.
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