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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THE POET AND THE MUSE: (La Nuit de Mai etc. (1830) with an
introduction by W. H. Pollock. _Tr._ 1880.)
WORKS. (Comedies) _Tr._ and edited, with an introduction, by S. S.
Gwynn, 1890.
=NEPOS, CORNELIUS.= B.C. 690? =Roman historian and biographer.=
LIFE AND DEATH OF POMPONIUS ATTICUS. _Tr._ 1677.
LIVES OF ILLUSTRIOUS MEN, Done into English by several gentlemen of
the University of Oxford, 1684.
=NIBELUNGEN LIED.= 13th century. =Epic poem=, 'The Iliad of Germany'.
Considered the most famous of the creations of mediæval Germany.
Properly speaking the title is 'The Calamity of the Nibelungen'.
THE FALL OF THE NIBELUNGERS: Otherwise the Book of the Kriemhild.
_Tr._ by W. N. Lettsom, 1850.
DAS NIBELUNGEN LIED, or, LAY OF THE LAST NIBELUNGEN. _Tr._ into
English Verse after C. Lachmann's collated and corrected text by J.
Birch, 1848.
This has been translated in parts on several occasions, and has
recently formed the subject of several story-books for children.
=NICCOLINI, GIOVAMBATTISTA.= _b._ 1762, _d._ 1861. =Italian poet and
dramatist.=
ARNOLD OF BRESCIA. _Tr._ T. Garrow, 1846.
=OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM GOTTLOB.= _b._ 1779, _d._ 1850. =Danish poet.=
THE ADVENTURER. _In_ German Romances. _Tr._ 1826.
ALADDIN, or THE WONDERFUL LAMP. A dramatic poem. _Tr._ by Theodore
Martin, 1857.
ALI UND VALBORD; a tragedy. _Tr._ by R. M. Laing, 1841.
THE GODS OF THE NORTH. _Tr._ by W. E. Frye, 1845.
HAKON JARL: a tragedy [1807]. _Tr._ 1840.
ROMANTIC BALLADS. _Tr._ by George Borrow, 1826.
=OHNET, GEORGES.= _b._ 1848. =French novelist.=
BATTLE OF LIFE. _Tr._ 1884.
CLOUD AND SUNSHINE. _Tr._ H. Shott, 1887.
COUNTESS SARAH. _Tr._ 1884.
DR. RAMEAU. _Tr._ 1889.
GREAT MARL-PIT. _Tr._ 1886.
IRONMASTER, THE. _Tr._ 1884.
LADY IN GREY. _Tr._ D. H. Fisher, 1896.
LAST LOVE. _Tr._ 1890.
LOVE'S DEPTHS. _Tr._ F. Rothwell, 1899.
PRINCE SERGE PANINE. _Tr._ 1883.
RIVAL ACTRESSES. _Tr._ 1889.
WEIRD GIFT. _Tr._ A. D. Vandam, 1890.
WILL. _Tr._ 1884.
=OMAR KHAYYAM.= _b._ 1017, _d._ 1124. =Persian poet.=
RUBÃIYAT OF. _Tr._ by Edward Fitzgerald, 1859.
[First published in Paris in 1857.] Fitzgerald tr. only a small
selection of the quatrains and read into them a philosophy of
his own.
=ORIGEN.= _b._ Alexandra, 185, _d._ 254. =Early Christian writer.=
THE COMPLAYNT OF MARY MAGDALEYNE [from Origen. By J. Lydgate]. _In_
Chaucer's Boke of Fame. [1526].
AN HOMILIE OF MARYE MAGDALENE, DECLARING HER FERVENT LOVE AND ZELE
TOWARDS CHRIST. _Tr._ 1565.
ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. _Tr._ by James Bellamy, 1660.
=OVID= (=OVIDUS NASO PUBLIUS=). _b._ 43 B.C., _d._ 18 A.D. =Latin
poet.=
ALL OVID'S ELEGIES: 3 books. _Tr._ by C.[hristopher] M.[arlow].
Epigrammes by J.[ohn] D.[avies] and C. M.[arlow], 1600.
THE ART OF LOVE. The Flores of Ovid de arte amandi with theyr
englysshe before them: and two alphabete tablys ... 1513.
CERTAINE OF OVID'S ELEGIES. By C. Marlow. Epigrammes and Elegies by
J. D.[avies] and C. M.[arlow], [1590.]
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