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
=SIR BEVES OF HAMTOUN.=
_Ed._ Turnbull, Maitland Club, 1838. E.E.T.S., 1885-94.
=SIR FERUMBRAS.= 14th century. _Trs._ of Ferabras and other Chansons
de Gestes and romans d'aventures.
_Ed._ S. J. Herrtage. E.E.T.S., 1879.
=SIR GAWAYNE AND THE GRENE KNIGHT.=
_Ed._ F. Madden, Bannatyne Club, 1839. Morris, E.E.T.S., 1864.
=SIR GOWTHER.=
A VERSION OF THE LEGEND OF ROBERT THE DEVIL. 15th century. _Ed._
Utterson, 'Select Pieces of early Popular Poetry'. 1817.
=SIR ISUMBRAS.=
_Ed._ Ellis (Halliwell), 1897.
HERE BEGYNNETH THE HISTORY OF THE VALYENT KNYGHT, SYR ISENBRAS. [In
verse.] [1550?]
THE ROMANCE OF SIR ISUMBRAS. (The Thornton Romances). 1844.
An old English romance in verse. Consists of 130 six-lined
stanzas.
=SIR ORFEO.= (Orfeo and Heurodis.)
_Ed._ Ritson, Ancient Metrical Romances. 1802.
=SIR PERCEVAL OF GALLES.= 13th century.
_Ed._ Halliwell, Thornton Romances. Camden Soc., 1844.
=SIR TRIAMOUR, ROMANCE OF.=
_Ed._ J. O. Halliwell [Phillips]. Percy Soc., 1846.
=SIR TRISTREM.= _C._ 13th century.
_Ed._ Fr. Michel. THE POETICAL ROMANCES OF TRISTAN. 3 v. 1835-39. SIR
WALTER SCOTT, 1804.
=SLAVONIC ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS, General.=
_Slavonic._
NAAKE, JOHN T. SLAVONIC FAIRY TALES. Collected and _translated_ from
the Russian, Polish, etc. 1874.
WRATISLAW, A. H. _Tr._ SIXTY FOLK-TALES FROM SLAVONIC SOURCES. 1889.
_Servian._
BOWRING, SIR JOHN. _Tr._ SERVIAN POETRY. [Historical, Traditional,
and Religious], 1827.
LYTTON, LORD ('OWEN MEREDITH'). _Tr._ Serbski Pesme: the National
Songs of Servia. 1861.
=SOCRATES.= _b._ 469, _d._ 399 B.C. =Greek philosopher.=
_See_ PLATO'S DIALOGUES. _Tr._ by Floyer Sydenham, 1767-80.
_Also_ XENOPHON'S MEMORABILIA. _Tr._ by E. Bysshe, 1712.
=SOPHOCLES.= _b._ 496, _d._ 405 B.C. =Greek tragic dramatist.=
AJAX. _Tr._ by Lewis Theobald, 1714.
ELECTRA. (_Translated in Verse._) By C.(harles) W.(ase), 1649.
ŒDIPUS, KING OF THEBES. _Tr._ with notes by Lewis Theobald, 1715.
PHILOCTETES. _Tr._ by Thos. Sheridan. 1725.
THE TRAGEDIES OF SOPHOCLES. _Tr._ with notes by Geo. Adams, 1729.
Influenced Milton's 'Samson Agonistes', Addison's 'Cato',
Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon', Shelley's 'Prometheus
Unbound', Byron's 'Cain' and 'Manfred'. Arnold's 'Merope' is an
imitation of S.
=SPAGNUOLI, BAPTISTA MANTUANUS.= _b._ 1448, _d._ 1516. =Italian
poet.= A Carmelite Friar. Erasmus says that 'he would be placed by
posterity not much below Virgil'.
EGLOGS OF THE POET B. MANTUAN CARMELITAN, turned into English Verse
... by George Turbervile, Gent. 1567.
THE BUCOLICKS OF B. M. IN TEN ECLOGUES. _Tr._ ... by Thos. Harvey,
1656.
Copied by both Sanazzaro and Spenser ('Shepherd's Calendar');
also by Sidney.
'Readers of "Love's Labour's Lost" need hardly be told that
"good old Mantuan" was a Latin school-book in Shakespeare's
boyhood, and has also been imitated by Barclay'.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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