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
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=HOLINSHED, RALPH.= _d._ 1580 (?). _English annalist._
CHRONICLES OF ENGLANDE, SCOTLANDE, AND IRELAND, by Raphaell
Holinshed, 2 v., 1577.
Modern historians have borrowed largely from him.
=HOLY GRAIL.= _Cir._ 1450. English _tr._ [from de Borron] by Lonelich,
pts. i-iv., _Ed._ F. J. Furnivall. E.E.T.S., 1874-77.
ALLITERATIVE ROMANCE OF JOSEPH OF ARIMATHIE, OR THE HOLY GRAIL. _Ed._
J. R. Lumby. 1870.
_Ed._ Furnivall, F. J. Roxburghe Club, 1861-63.
A name given to the cup or vessel from which Christ drank the
wine at the Last Supper. It was fabled to have been preserved
by Joseph of Arimathæa. The 'quest of the graal' is the most
fertile source of adventures to the Knights of the Round Table.
_See also under_ ARTHUR.
=HOMER.= _b._ _c._ 850 B.C. =Greek Epic poet.=
TEN BOOKS OF HOMER'S ILIADES, _translated_ out of French, by A. Hall,
1581.
SEAVEN BOOKES OF THE ILIADES OF HOMER, PRINCE OF POETES, _translated_
according to the Greeke Judgement of his best Commentaries. By Geo.
Chapman, 1598.
THE STRANGE, WONDERFULL AND BLOODY BATTEL BETWEEN FROGS AND MICE....
Paraphrastically done into English Heroycall Verse by W. F(owldes),
1603.
HOMER, PRINCE OF POETS. _Translated_ according to the Greeke in
twelve Bookes of his Iliads by Geo. Chapman. [1610.]
THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER, PRINCE OF POETS, IN HIS ILIADES AND
ODYSSES. _Translated_ by Geo. Chapman. [1612.]
After the Bible, the works of Homer have had perhaps the most
lasting influence upon our literature.
=HORACE= (=QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS=). _b._ 65, _d._ 8 B.C. =Latin
lyric and satiric poet.=
ALL THE ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE. Translated into English Verse by
H. Rider, etc., 1638.
CERTAIN SELECTED ODES OF HORACE.... [by J. Ashmore], 1621.
HORACE, HIS ARTE OF POETRIE, EPISTLES, AND SATYRS. _Tr._ by T. Drant,
1567.
A MEDICINABLE MORALE, that is, the Two Bookes of Horace His Satires,
Englished. The Wailyngs of the Prophet Hieremiah done into English
verse. Also Epigrammes by T. Drant. 1566.
ODES [AND FOUR EPODES] OF HORACE.... selected and translated by S^r.
T[homas] H[awkins]. 1625.
Influenced 'cavalier' poets of the 17th century, among whom
was Herrick. His satiric verse largely influenced Pope in his
'Moral Essays' and 'Imitations of Horace', and Dryden in his
satires. Jonson is an imitator of Horace in the way of poetical
epistles and short lyrics.
=HORN, KING.= _See_ KING HORN.
=HUCHOWN.= Pystyl (Epistle) of Swete Susan. _Ed._ Armours, Scottish
Allit. Verse, 1897.
_See_ Morte Arthure, p. 107.
=HUGO, VICTOR-MARIE.= _b._ 1802, _d._ 1885. =French lyric poet and
novelist.=
BY ORDER OF THE KING. (1869). _Tr._ [Mrs. A. C. Steele] 1870.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. _Tr._ D. Pyrke, 1865.
CHRIST AT THE VATICAN. _Tr._ G. Schlatter, 1875.
DRAMATIC WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO. _Tr._ by F. L. Slous and Mrs. N.
Crosland, 1846.
HANS OF ICELAND. (1823.) _Tr._ 1825.
HERNANI. _Tr._ 1830.
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