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
A half-mythical German jester, said to have died in 1350. His
name is perpetuated in a famous chap-book, once very popular
with the peasantry of many nations, and containing many
ludicrous stories. The book was probably written by Thomas
Murner.
EULENSPIEGEL (TYLL OWLGLASS).
Here beginneth a merye Jest of a man that was called Howleglass and
of many marveylous things and Jestes that he dyd in his lyfe, in
Eastlande and in many other places. [1528].
'"Eulenspiegel": a series of amusing trickeries which are
reflected in the English Robin Goodfellow'.
=EURIPIDES.= _b._ 480, _d._ 406 B.C. =Greek tragic dramatist.=
JOCASTA: a Tragedie, translated [from the Phoenissæ] and digested
into Acte by G. Gascoygne and F. Kinwelmershe [1575].
JOCASTA. _In_ a hundredth sundrie Flowers, etc. _Tr._ by Geo.
Gascoigne [1572].
SELECT TRAGEDIES. _Tr._ [by G. James Bannister]. 1780.
THE TRAGEDIES OF EURIPIDES, translated [by R. Potter]. 1781-3.
Influenced Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon', Milton's 'Samson
Agonistes', Addison's 'Cato', Byron's 'Cain' and 'Manfred', and
Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'.
=EUTROPIUS, FLAVIUS.= 364. =Latin historian.=
A BRIEFE CHRONICLE OF THE ROMAINE DE LA PUBLIQUE, etc., Englished by
Nicholas Hawarde, 1564.
=EXETER BOOK= (=CODEX EXONIENSIS=).
'This book was presented to his Cathedral by Leofric, the first
Bishop of Exeter, about the middle of the 11th century. It is
preserved in the Cathedral Library at Exeter; the first leaves are
missing, and the last leaves are injured. The hand-writing of the MS.
belongs probably to the first half of the 11th century'.
Edited with _Tr._ by B. Thorpe, 1842. I. Gollancz, Poems i to viii,
E.E.T.S., 1895.
_Contents_: 1, The Christ. 2, Guthlac. 3, Azarias. 4, Phœnix. 5,
Juliana. 6, Wanderer. 7, Gifts of Men. 8, The Father's Teaching. 9,
Seafarer. 10, Spirit of Men. 11, Widsid (The Singer's Wandering). 12,
Fates of Men. 13, Gnomic Verses. 14, Wonders of Creation. 15, Rhyme
Song. 16, Panther. 17, Whale. 18, Partridge. 19, Address of the Soul
to the Body. 20, Deor. 21, Riddles, 1-60. 22, The Wife's Complaint.
23, The Last Judgement. 24, A Prayer. 25. Descent into Hell. 26,
Alms. 27, Pharaoh. 28, Fragments of a Paternoster. 29, Fragments of
a Didactic Poem. 30, Another form of Riddle, 31, Riddle 61. 31, The
Husband's Message. 32, The Ruin. 33, Riddles 62-89.
=FARINI, LUIGI CARLO.= _b._ 1812, _d._ 1866. =Italian Statesman.=
THE ROMAN STATE FROM 1815-50. Vols. 1-3. _Tr._ W. E. Gladstone. Vol.
4., _tr._ by a Lady 1851-54.
=FAUSTUS, DR., STORIES OF.= 1587.
[1] THE HISTORIE OF THE DAMNABLE LIFE, AND DESERVED DEATH OF DOCTOR
JOHN FAUSTUS. Newly Printed, and in convenient places imperfect
matter amended. _Tr._ by P. F. Gent, etc. 1592.
THE SECOND REPORT OF DOCTOR JOHN FAUSTUS, CONTEANING HIS APPEARANCES
AND THE DEEDS OF WAGNER. _Tr._ 1594.
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