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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DE PONTO, FOUR BOOKS OF. _Tr._ by Wye Saltonstall, 1639.
FABLE OF OVID TRETING OF NARCISSUS. _Tr._ with a moral thereunto,
very pleasant to rede. 1560.
FESTIVALS [THE FASTI], or ROMANE CALENDAR. _Tr._ by J. Gower, 1640.
THE XV BOOKES OF OVID, ENTYTLED METAMORPHOSES. _Tr._ by A. Golding,
etc. 1567.
HEROYCAL EPISTLES. In English Verse. _Tr._ by Geo. Turberville, 1567.
IBIS. Invective against Ibis. _Tr._ by [Thos. Underdowne], 1567.
OVID. HIS BOKE OF METAMORPHOSES. _Tr._ by Wm. Caxton. [1480.]
THE TRISTIA; or, ELEGIES, etc. De Tristibus, the first three Bookes.
_Tr._ by Thos. Churchyard, 1580.
Largely influenced Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Pope and
Shakespeare.
'In and before the poems of Chaucer, the poems of Ovid upon
love and its cure were much drawn upon by writers of romance
and allegories. They were the direct inspiration of much of the
troubadour poetry of Provence, and thence of the mediaeval
lyric verse of Europe in general. Ovidian borrowings are
manifest in the "Romance of the Rose". Chaucer himself was a
student of Ovid, Lucan, Virgil, "Stace" and also Livy. From
Ovid's "Metamorphoses," and love-elegies in particular, he took
much matter. Spenser's "Faerie Queene" is full of borrowings
from Ovid's "Metamorphoses". The effect of Ovid on Shakespeare
is manifest in his "Venus and Adonis"'.
=OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE.= _C._ 1216.
_Ed._ Stevenson. Roxburghe Club, 1838, and R. Morris. Specimens.
Edited by T. Wright. Percy Soc., 1842.
=PAINTER, WM.= _See under_ =Italian Anthologies, etc.=
=PALMERIN D'OLIVA.=
THE MIRROUR OF NOBILITIE AND WONDER OF CHIVALRY.... Turned into
English by [Anthony] M[unday]. 1637. 1st pt. _Tr._ 1588.
'This work was condemned by the licentiate in Don Quixote to be
torn to pieces and burnt'.
=PALMERIN OF ENGLAND.=
THE HISTORIE OF PRINCE PALMERIN OF ENGLAND, 3 v. _Tr._ by A[nthony]
M[unday]. 1602-9. Third bk. _Tr._ (1595).
'Ordered to be preserved by the licentiate in Don Quixote and
kept as a singular piece'. Southey remarks that Munday began
'Palmerin' with some care, but soon resigned the task to others.
=PARIS, MATTHEW.= _d._ 1259.
ENGLISH CHRONICLES (Chronica Majora). From the Creation to 1259,
containing the History of England (now ascribed to Roger of Wendover)
and from 1235 to 1273 (the portion written by M. Paris). _Tr._ by J.
A. Giles, 1849-54.
[M. P. is generally considered to be England's greatest
mediæval historian.]
=PARTHENAY, ROMANS OF, OR OF LUSIGNEN.=
_Ed._ Prf. W. W. Skeat. E.E.T.S., 1866.
A VISION OF 'MELUSINE'. See p. 193.
=PASCAL, BLAISE.= _b._ 1623, _d._ 1662. =French philosopher and
mathematician.=
LES PROVINCALES: or, THE MYSTERIE OF JESUITISM. _Tr._ 1657.
THOUGHTS ON RELIGION AND OTHER SUBJECTS. _Tr._ by J. Walker, 1688.
WORKS. _Tr._ by George Pearce. 3 v. 1849-50.
[Contains much that had never been translated before.]
=PATERCULUS, VELLEIUS.= B.C. 18. =Roman historian.=
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