The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English LiteratureHarris, William James
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The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature
Harris, William James
Literature -- Translations into English -- Bibliography
3. 'Red Book of Hergest': II. Y Llyvyr Coch o Hergest, 1889.
4. 'Book of Llan Dâv', 1893.
5. 'Book of Aneurin' [Anc. Welsh Poetry, 12th-13th cent.]
SKENE, W. F. _Ed._ THE FOUR ANCIENT BOOKS OF WALES. 2 v. 1868.
[Contains the Cymric Poems attributed to the bards of the 6th
cent.]
WAIFS AND STRAYS OF CELTIC TRADITION. 1889.
V. 1. 'Craignish Tales', collected by J. MacDougall, with
notes, 1889.
V. 2. 'Folk and Hero Tales', _ed._ and _tr._ by D. McInnes,
1890.
V. 3. 'Folk and Hero Tales', _ed._ by J. MacDougall [collected
from a roadman, 1891].
V. 4. 'The Friars', collected by J. G. Campbell, 1891.
=CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE.= _b._ 1547, _d._ 1616. =Spanish
novelist.=
DON QUIXOTE (1605). _Tr._ by Thomas Shelton, 1612-20.
A COLLECTION OF SELECT NOVELS, written originally in Castilian by Don
M. C. S. made English by H. Bridges, 1728.
Butler's 'Hudibras' is a palpable metrical imitation of 'Don
Quixote'.
Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Knight of the Burning Pestle' is a
still closer imitation.
The tremendous influence of 'Don Quixote' upon English
literature is difficult to define. He was imitated by the
Elizabethans, e.g. Middleton's 'Spanish Gipsy' and Fletcher's
'Fair Maid of the Inn' are both taken from his 'Novellas
Exemplares'.
For 'Exemplary Novels,' _see also under Anthologies._ Croxall, S.
Select Collection of Novels. _Tr._ 1720-22.
=CHAMISSO, A. VON.= _b._ 1781, _d._ 1838. =French poet and
naturalist.=
THE SHADOWLESS MAN: or THE WONDERFUL HISTORY OF PETER SCHLEMIHL.
[1845.]
=CHANSONS DE GESTES,= 12th and 13th centuries.
A series of long narrative poems dealing with warfare and adventure.
The principal poems of the Carlovingian Cycle are The Song of Roland,
Ogier le Danois, Renaud de Montauban, Raoul de Cambrai, Huon de
Bordeaux, Les Saisnes, Doon de Mayence, Gerard de Viane and Hugues
Capet.
These were of vast importance in the metrical paraphrases that
occupied the chief period of English Literature in the Middle
Ages, had a very great influence upon the Italian romancers,
affected English literature through Spenser and others, and
influenced more particularly the Elizabethan period.
=CHARLEMAGNE ROMANCES.=
BOIARDO, MATTIO M. ORLANDO INNAMORATO. The three first Bookes done
into English Heroical Verse (1480). _Tr._ by R(obert) T(ofte). 1598.
CAXTON, WILLIAM. THE LYF OF THE NOBLE AND CRYSTEN PRINCE CHARLES THE
GRETE, _translated_ by Wm. Caxton. 1485.
(Reissued by the Early English Text Society, 1880-1.)
CAXTON, WILLIAM. THE RIGHT PLEASANT AND GOODLY HISTORY OF THE FOUR
SONNES OF AYMON. 1489.
(Reissued by the Early English Text Society, 1884-5.)
BOURCHIER, SIR JOHN, _Lord Berners_. THE BOKE OF DUKE HUON OF
BURDEUX. 1534.
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