ABOUT, EDMOND. b. 1828, d. 1885. French Writer.
COLONEL FOUGAS' MISTAKE. Tr. J. E. Maitland.
2 v. 1878.
FELLAH, THE: Story of an Honest Man.
Tr. Sir R. Roberts, 1870.
KING OF THE MOUNTAINS. Tr. L. Wraxall.
1862.
LAWYER'S NOSE. Tr. J. E. Maitland, 1878.
MAN WITH THE BROKEN EAR. Tr. H. Holt,
1867.
NEW LEASE OF LIFE AND SAVING A
DAUGHTER'S DOWRY. Tr. 1860.
ROMAN QUESTION. Tr. H. C. Coape, 1859.
ROUND OF WRONG. Tr. L. Wraxall, 1861.
SOLDIER LOVER. Tr. Elton Locke, 1886.
TOLLA: a Tale of Modern Rome. Tr. L. C. C.
Constable's Miscellany of For. Lit., 1854.
ACHILLES TATIUS. Fourth Century. Greek writer.
CLEITOPHON AND LEUCIPPE. Tr. by Rev. R.
Smith, 1855.
One of the decadent Greek novelists. An erotic novel of a conventional
type.
ÆLFRIC. c. 1006.
THE CATHOLIC HOMILIES. Ed. with tr. B.
Thorpe, Ælfric Soc., 1844-46.
LIVES OF SAINTS. Ed. Text and Tr. W. W.
Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1881.
Eminent Saxon prelate, one of the most learned of his time. His works,
upwards of eighty in number, have been republished by the Ælfric Soc.
(London, 1844-46).
ÆSCHINES. B.C. b. 389, d. 314. Greek orator.
THE ORATIONS OF ÆSCHINES AGAINST
CTESIPHON AND DEMOSTHENES DE CORONA.
Tr. with notes, Andrew Portal, 1755.
Only three orations of A. are extant, and they relate to charges of 'malversation
and corruption against Demosthenes'. The 'De Corona of D.'
(330 B.C.) is in reply to Æschines.
ÆSCHYLUS. b. 525, d. 456 B.C. The first of the
three great tragic poets of Greece.
THE TRAGEDIES. Tr. by R. Potter, 1777-8.
The tragedies of Æschylus have affected English drama chiefly through
French and Italian dramatists. 'Samson Agonistes,' by Milton, and 'Prometheus
Unbound,' by Shelley, are unmistakable echoes, and the latter
was intended to be a sequel to Æschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'. 'Manfred'
and 'Cain', by Byron, are modelled upon A. Influenced also Racine and
Corneille. The most famous speech in Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon'
is a translation from A.
ÆSOP. 6th century B.C. Fabulist.
Here begynneth the book of the Subtyl Historyes
and Fables of Esope.... Translated out of the
French into Englysshe by William Caxton, 1484.
The fables of Æsop are among the very earliest of their kind, and probably
have never been surpassed for point and brevity.
Nearly all subsequent fables are based upon Æsop. Has affected all
European literature. All educated or even intelligent Greeks were
supposed to know Æsop, hence their important influence.
ALAMANNI, LUIGI, The Elder. b. 1495, d. 1556.
Italian poet.
LA COLTIVAZIONE (1546). [Didactic poem on
agriculture.]
See 'Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of the Century'.
ALCAEUS. b. 610 B.C., d. 580 B.C. Greek lyric poet.
The purest text of this poet will be found in the 'Museum Criticum', vol.
i. pp. 421-44. Edited by Bishop Blomfield.
'Museum Criticum, or Cambridge Classical Researches,' 1814-25, 2v.
Said to have invented the metre called 'Alcaic'. The style has been
much imitated.
ALCORAN. See Koran.
ALEMAN, MATEO. b. 1550 (?) d. 1610. Spanish
Writer.
THE LIFE OF GUZMAN D'ALFARACHE, or
THE SPANISH ROGUE (1599), to which is added
the celebrated tragi-comedy Celestina. Done into
English ... By several hands. 2 v., 1708. 1st
Tr. 1623.
THE ROGUE; or, THE LIFE OF GUZMAN
DE ALFARACHE. [Tr. I. Mabbe]. 1623.
ALEMBERT, JEAN D'. b. 1717, d. 1783. French
philosopher, litterateur and mathematician.
ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE
JESUITS IN FRANCE. Tr. 1766.
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES IN LIT. HIST.,
AND PHILOSOPHY. 1746.
SPIRIT OF LAWS. Tr. 1846.
ALEXANDER. For a summary of the growth of
the saga of Alexander, see Ten Brink, Hist. of
Eng. Lit. v.i. In England, the adaptation by
Thomas or Eustace of Kent (Roman de toute
chevalerie) led the way to the alliterative
romance of King Alisaunder.
See also ALEXANDER AND DINDIMUS.
Ed. W. W. Skeat. E.E.T.S.
WARS OF A. Ed. Stevenson, 1849.
THE BUIK OF THE MOST NOBLE AND VAILZEAND
CONQUEROUR, A. THE GREAT. Bannatyne
Club, 1834.
KING ALEXANDER. A Greek romance upon
him had been written in 1060 by Simon Seth. This
romance was tr. into Latin and became the groundwork
of many French and English poems. In
1200 Gaultier de Chatillon turned it into an 'Alexandreis'
which was one of the best Latin poems of
the Middle Ages.
At about the beginning of the reign of John the great French romance
was composed in nine books, containing altogether about 20,000 of the
twelve-syllabled lines since known, from their use in that poem, as 'Alexandrines'.
ALEXANDER, Wars of. Ed. Prof. W. W. Skeat.
E.E.T.S., 1886.
ALISAUNDER. Ed. Skeat. E.E.T.S.
ALEXANDER AND DINDIMUS. Letters of
A. to D., King of the Brahmans, and his replies. Tr.
from Latin, cir. 1340-50. (Skeat). Ed. Stevenson,
1849.
ALEXANDER.
LIFE OF ALISAUNDER.
Ed. Weber. METRICAL ROMANCES, 1810.
ALFIERI, VITTORIO, COUNT. b. 1749, d. 1803.
Italian Poet.
TRAGEDIES. Tr. by Charles Lloyd, 1815.
Contents: 'Cleopatra', 'Phillipo II', 'Virginia', 'Orestes', 'Mary
Stuart', 'Octavia', 'Merope', 'Saul'.
ALFRED. b. 849, d. 901. King.
GREGORY'S CURA PASTORALIS. Ed. Text
and Tr. H. Sweet, E.E.T.S., 1871-72.
BAEDA'S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA. Ed.
Miller, E.E.T.S., 1890.
OROSII HISTORIA. A History of the World
to 410. Ed. H. Sweet, E.E.T.S., 1883.
BOETHIUS. DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIÆ.
Ed. Text and Tr. Fox, 1864.
LAWS. Ed. 'Legal Code of Alfred the Great',
Milton Haigh Turk, 1893.
Works ascribed to Alfred.
PROSE VERSION OF PSALMS. Ed. Thorpe,
1835.
A MARTYROLOGY. Ed. J. Herzfeld, E.E.T.S.,
1900.
AMADIS DE GAULA. (End of 14th century.)
The hero of the famous romance of chivalry.
THE FIRST BOOK OF A. OF GAULE [By V. de
Lobeira. Translated from the French version, by
A. Munday.] MS. note [by Dr. Farmer]. [1590?]
THE SECOND BOOKE OF A. DE GAULE
[By V. de Lobeira. Englished by L(azarus) P(yote).]
[Pseud. i.e. Anthony Munday.] 1595.
THE ANCIENT ... AND HONOURABLE
HISTORY OF A. DE GAULE. (The First-fourth
Booke.) Tr. from the Spanish ... by Lord of
Essaro, N. de Herberay, etc. Tr. into English by
(Anthony Munday), 1619.
AMADIS OF GAUL. Tr. R. Southey, 1872.
An imitation of the Arthurian romances.
These extravagant chivalric romances, with their even more phantastic
descendants dating from thirteenth century, had a great vogue for about
300 years, but were ridiculed out of existence by Cervantes.
'Like the Arthurian and Carlovingian romances, portrays the manners,
the religion, and the ideas of love, honour and morality that prevailed
when it was written. The "Amadis", says Ticknor, is admitted by
general consent to be the best of all the old romances of chivalry'.
AMBROGINI, ANGELO. See Poliziana.
AMIEL, H. F. French Writer.
JOURNAL IN TIME. Tr. Mrs. H. Ward. 2 v.
1885.
AMIS AND AMILOUN. Thirteenth century.
Ed. Weber. METRICAL ROMANCES, vol. 2.
1810.
OF THE FRIENDSHIP OF AMIS AND AMILE.
Tr. Wm. Morris, 1894. [Kelmscott Pr.].
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. b. 320, d. 390.
Greek-Latin historian.
THE ROMAN HISTORIE. Tr. Philemon Holland,
1609.
ANACREON, BION, MOSCHUS. ... Tr. T. Stanley,
1651.
ANACRAEON DONE INTO ENGLISH OUT OF
THE ORIGINAL GREEK. By T. Wood, A.
Cowley, J. Oldham and Francis Willis, 1683.
The influence of Anacreon on English literature was chiefly through Horace;
Waller, Lovelace, Herrick and Suckling imitated the lyrics of A. to a great
extent.
ANCREN RIWLE. Assigned to Richard le Poor.
d. 1237.
Ed. J. Morton, Camden Soc., 1853.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN, b. 1805, d. 1875.
FAIRY TALES. DANISH FAIRY LEGENDS
AND TALES. Tr. 1846. ONLY A FIDDLER,
and O. T., OR LIFE IN DENMARK. Tr. by Howitt,
1845.
ANDERSEN, HANS C.
DANISH FAIRY LEGENDS AND TALES.
Tr. 1846.
IMPROVISATORE: or LIFE IN ITALY. Tr.
M. Howitt, 1845.
NIGHTINGALE AND OTHER TALES. Tr.
C. Boner, 1846.
PICTURES OF TRAVEL IN SWEDEN.... Tr.
1871.
SHOES OF FORTUNE. Tr. 1847.
TALES. Selected. Tr. 1875.
TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE. Tr. M. Howitt,
1847.
THE TWO BARONESSES. 2 v. Tr. 1848.
TO BE, or NOT TO BE? Tr. Mrs. Bushby,
1857.
THE UGLY DUCK. Tr. 1851.
THE WHITE SWANS. Tr. [1863].
WILL O' THE WISP, etc. Tr. H. W. DULCKEN
[1867].
WONDERFUL STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
Tr. M. Howitt, 1846.
One of the great story-tellers of the world.
His original genius is most conspicuous in his fairy tales. His numerous
works have been translated into most of the European languages.
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE.
A national record of events, which is said to have been begun at the
instance of King Alfred the Great (849-901). Its last record is of the accession
of Henry II, 1154. It is the oldest historical work written in any
Germanic language, and is the basis of most of our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon
History.
THE SAXON CHRONICLE, with an English translation.
Ed. by James Ingram, 1823.
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, with a translation.
Ed. by Benjamin Thorpe. Rolls Series, 1861.
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE. Tr. by
J. A. Giles, 1847, and by J. Stevenson, 1853.
ANGLO-SAXON ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.
See Anthologies, etc.
ANTHOLOGIES: ANGLO-SAXON, AND GENERAL
COLLECTIONS. Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales
and Traditional Literature.
ASHTON, JOHN. THE ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY,
TOLD AND ILLUSTRATED IN FACSIMILE.
1886-89.
[Sir Isumbras, Sir Degore, Sir Bevis, Squyr of Lowe Degre, Valentyne
and Orson, Guy of Warwick, etc.]
BOWRING, SIR J. Tr. SERVIAN POETRY.
1827.
CHILD, F. J. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
POPULAR BALLADS. 5 v. 1882.
CLOUSTON, W. A. POPULAR TALES AND
FICTIONS. 2 v. 1887.
COX, SIR G. W. and E. H. JONES. POPULAR
ROMANCES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 1871-72.
[Arthur, Merlin, Sir Tristram, Bevis, Guy, Roland, Beowulf, Volsungs,
Nibelungs, Walter of Aquitaine, Godrun, Fritheof, Burnt Njal, etc.]
CROXALL, S. A SELECT COLLECTION OF
NOVELS, written by the most celebrated authors in
several languages ... and all now translated from
the originals by several eminent hands. 6 v. 1720-2.
[Contains: Cervantes's Exemplary Novels; La Fayette's 'Princess of
Cleves', and 'Zaide'; Machiavelli's 'Marriage of Belphegor'; Scarron's
'Innocent Adultery'; 'Historical Tales of the Abbé Réal'; and various
anonymous tales from the French.]
ELLIS, G. Ed. SPECIMENS OF EARLY
ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES. Ed. J. O.
Halliwell [Phillips]. 1805. Revised by Halliwell,
J. O., 1848. Contains analysis of the following:
Peter Alphonsus, Marie's Lays, Merlin, Guy of Warwick,
Morte Arthur, Sir Bevis, Richard C. de L.,
Roland and Ferragus, Sir Otuel, Sir Ferumbras,
The Seven Wise Masters, Florice and Blancheflour.
Robert of Cysille, Sir Isumbras, Sir Triamour,
Ipomydon, Sir Eglamour, Lay le Fraine, Sir Eger,
Sir Grahame and Sir Graysteel, Sir Degoré, Roswal
and Lillian, and Amys and Amylion.
GIBB, J. GUDRUN, BEOWULF, THE SONG
OF ROLAND AND OTHER MEDIEVAL TALES.
1881.
GOULART, SIMON. ADMIRABLE AND MEMORABLE
HISTORIES, CONTAINING THE
WONDERS OF OUR TIME. Collected into French out
of the best authors.... Tr. by Edw. Grimstone. 1607.
[To this work our early dramatists were much indebted.]
GROUP OF EASTERN ROMANCES AND
STORIES. 1889.
HALLIWELL, J. O. THORNTON ROMANCES.
Camden Soc., 1844.
Percival, Isumbras, Eglamour, Degravant.
HARTSHORNE, C. H. ANCIENT METRICAL
TALES. 1829.
Athelston, King Edward and Shepherd, Floris, William the Werwolf, etc.
JOYCE, P. W. Tr. OLD CELTIC ROMANCES.
[Eng. tr. from Celtic MSS.]. 1879.
KEMBLE, J. M. Ed. CODEX VERCELLENSIS,
ANGLO-SAXON POETRY OF THE. Aelfric
Soc. 1843-56.
[1. Legend of St. Andrew. 2. Cynewulf's Elene, and Minor Poems.]
LABOULAYE, EDWARD R. L.
1. FAIRY TALES OF ALL NATIONS. Tr. 1867.
2. LAST FAIRY TALES. Tr. by M. L. Booth, 1884.
3. OLD WIVES FABLES. Tr. [1883].
4. MORE OLD WIVES FABLES. Tr. [1884].
LONGFELLOW, HENRY W. Ed. and tr.
POETS AND POETRY OF EUROPE. With
Intro. and Biographical notes. 1838.
LUDLOW, JOHN MALCOLM. POPULAR
EPICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES OF THE NORSE-GERMAN
AND CARLOVINGIAN CYCLES. 2 v.
1865.
MARRIOTT, DR. W. Ed. COLLECTION OF
ENGLISH MIRACLE PLAYS. 1838.
Ten dramas from the Chester, Coventry, and Towneley series, with two
of later date.
'MEREDITH, OWEN'. [Ld. Lytton]. Tr.
SERBSKI PESME: the National Songs of Servia.
1861.
MORLEY, Prof. H. Ed. EARLY PROSE ROMANCES.
1889.
Specimens of 1. Reynard, 2. Fryer Bacon, 3. Robert the Devil, 4. Guy
of Warwick, 5. Hamlet, 6. Virgilius, 7. Friar Rush.
MORRIS, Dr. H. Ed. EARLY ENGLISH
METRICAL POEMS, c. 1360. E.E.T.S., 1864.
MORRIS, DR. R. OLD ENGLISH MISCELLANY.
[A Bestiary, Kentish sermons, 'Prov. of
Alfred', Relig. Poem, 13th century]. E.E.T.S., 1872.
MULOCK, D. M. Tr. THE FAIRY BOOK. 1863.
PABKE, MARIE and M. J. PITMAN. WONDER-WORLD
STORIES FROM THE CHINESE,
FRENCH, GERMAN, HEBREW, HINDOOSTANI,
HUNGARIAN, IRISH, ITALIAN, RUSSIAN,
SWEDISH AND TURKISH. 1877.
PAINTER, WILLIAM. PALACE OF PLEASURE.
Beautified, adorned and well furnished with
pleasant histories and excellent novels, selected out of
divers good and commendable authors. 1566-69.
[A collection of tales, chiefly by Boccaccio and Bandello, on which many
of the Elizabethan writers founded their plots.]
RITCHIE, LEITCH. Editor of the Library of
Romance. 15 v. 1833-35.
[Contains stories by Galt, Banim, Victor Hugo, Pichler, etc.]
THORPE, BENJ., Ed. CODEX EXONIENSIS.
Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, with Tr. in par.
cols. 1842.
[Another edition by I. Gollancz has been issued by the Early English
Text Soc.]
RITSON, J. ANCIENT ENGLISH METRICAL
ROMANCES. 3 v. 1802. The Wedding of
Sir Gawain, Ywaine and Gawin, Launfal, Lybeaus
Disconus, The Geste of King Horn, The Kyng of
Tars and the Sudan of Damas, Emare, Sir Orpheo,
Chronicle of Engleland, Le bone Florence of Rome,
The Erle of Tolous, The Squyer of Lowe Degree, The
Knight of Curtesy, and the Fair Lady of Faguell,
(Appendix) Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild.
ROBSON, J. THREE EARLY ENGLISH
METRICAL ROMANCES. Camden Soc. No. 18.
1842.
Anturs of Arther, Sir Amadace, The Avowynge of King Arther, Sir Gowan,
Sir Kaye and Sir Bawdewyn of Bretan.
SKENE, W. F. Ed. THE FOUR ANCIENT
BOOKS OF WALES. 2 v. 1868.
Contains the Cymric poems attributed to the bards of the sixth century.
SWEET, H. Ed. THE OLDEST ENGLISH
TEXTS. E.E.T.Soc. 1885.
Including all the extant oldest English texts up to about 900, which are
preserved in contemporary MSS., with the exception of the 'Chronicle'
and the works of Alfred.
THOMS, WM. J. Ed. EARLY PROSE ROMANCES.
3 v. 1828.
Vol. 1. 'Robert the Devyll'; Deloney's 'Thomas
of Reading'; 'The History of Friar Bacon'; 'The Pleasant
History of Friar Rush'; 'The Lyfe of Virgilius';
vol. 2. 'Robin Hood'; 'George à Green'; 'Tom à Lincolne';
vol. 3. The History of Helyas, Knight of the
Swan. The History of the Life and Death of Dr. John
Faustus. The second Report of Dr. John Faustus.
UTTERSON, R. SELECT PIECES OF EARLY
POPULAR POETRY. 2 v. 1817.
Syr Tryamoure, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Gowghter.
WAGNER, WILHELM. EPICS AND ROMANCES
OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Tr. from the
German by M. W. Macdonald and Ed. by W. S. W.
Anson 1882.
WEBER, HENRY W. ILLUSTRATIONS OF
NORTHERN ANTIQUITIES FROM THE
EARLIEST TEUTONIC AND SCANDINAVIAN
ROMANCES. With Translations of Metrical
Tales, notes and illustrations by H. W. Jamieson
and Sir W. Scott. 1811.
METRICAL ROMANCES OF THE 13TH, 14TH
AND 15TH CENTURIES, published from
original MSS. With an Introduction, 3 v. 1810.
TALES OF THE EAST. 3 v. 1811.
See also under various countries as Spanish, etc.
APOLLONIUS OF TYRE. Greek Romance.
KYNGE APPOLYN OF THYRE. Tr. by Rob.
Copland, 1510.
This romance forms the 153rd chapter of an edition of the 'Gesta Romanorum',
printed in 1488, and is considered as the probable original of the
play of 'Pericles'. It was rendered into Anglo-Saxon. [Tr. by Thorpe.]
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. B.C. b. 235. Greek poet.
ARGONAUTICS, in four books, by Francis
Fawkes, 1780.
APPIAN. b. 138, d. 161. Greek historian.
THE ANCIENT HISTORIE AND EXQUISITE
CHRONICLE OF THE ROMAN WARRES....
1578.
The history is a compilation. Of the twenty-four books only eleven
are extant.
APULEIUS. b. 125. Latin writer and Pagan Philosopher
of the Platonic School.
FABLE OF CUPID AND PSYCHE. (Verse
translation) by Thos. Taylor. 1795.
THE XI. BOOKES OF THE GOLDEN ASSE,
CONTEININGE THE METAMORPHOSIE OF
L. A. Tr. by W. Adlington. 1566.
[Supposed by some to be a satire on magicians, priests and debauchees.
Has often been imitated.]
AQUINAS, THOMAS. Saint, b. 1226, d. 1274.
Eminent scholastic teacher. The greatest of
the 'Schoolmen'.
MEDITATIONS OF ST. THOMAS ON THE
PURGATIVE, ILLUMINATIVE AND UNITIVE
WAYS FOR A RETREAT OF TEN DAYS. Tr.
1869.
MEMORANDA OF ANGELICAL DOCTRINE,
FROM LADY DAY TO THE ASCENTION: digested
and done into English ... by W. Humphrey. 1866.
SUMMA THEOLOGIA. Compendium. Tr. by
E. O'Donnell. 2 v. 1859.
ARABIAN ANTHOLOGY: COLLECTIONS.
CARLYLE, J. D. Tr. SPECIMENS OF
ARABIAN POETRY, FROM THE EARLIEST
TIMES TO THE EXTINCTION OF THE
KALIFAT. 1796.
CLOUSTON, W. A. ARABIAN POETRY FOR
ENGLISH READERS. 1881.
LYALL, SIR C. J. TRANSLATIONS OF ANCIENT
ARABIAN POETRY, with an introduction
and notes. 1885.
PRIDEAUX, W. F. THE LAY OF THE HIMYARITES.
1879.
ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT: consisting
of one thousand and one stories.... Translated
into French from the Arabian MSS. by
M. Galland (1704) ... and now done into
English [1710]. 2nd edition, 1712; 4th edition,
1713-15. 6 vols.
'The most famous product of Arabian literature: a large collection of
entertaining tales of unknown origin. The stories of Aladdin, of Sindbad
the Sailor, of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many others, are as
well known to English people of every age as any stories from their native
literature.' The influence of these stories on English literature is incalculable.
ARANY, JOHN. b. 1819, d. 1882. Hungarian poet.
LEGEND OF THE WONDROUS HUNT. Tr.
E. D. Butler, 1881.
ARETINO, PIETRO. b. 1492, d. 1557. Satirical
Italian Writer, surnamed 'The Scourge of
Princes'.
DIALOGUES, COMEDIES, LETTERS. 1538-57.
SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS. (No translation
given).
Imitated largely by Nash, ('The English Aretino',) and the Elizabethan
pamphleteers.
ARIOSTO, LODOVICO. b. 1474, d. 1533. Italian
poet.
ORLANDO FURIOSO IN ENGLISH HEROICAL
VERSE. By J. Harrington. (1516). [Allegorie
of Orlando Furioso,—Life of Ariosto]. 1591.
ORLANDO FURIOSO. Tr. by Thos. Carew
[1st five books only]. 1594.
SATYRES, IN SEVEN FAMOUS DISCOURSES,
shewing the State, (1) of the Court, and Courtiers.
(2) Of Libertie, and the Clergie in generall. (3) Of
the Romance Clergie. (4) Of Marriage. (5) Of
Soldiers, Musitians, and Lovers. (6) Of Schoolmasters
and Scholes. (7) Of Honour, and the
Happiest Life. Tr. In English by Gervase Markham
[or rather by R. T.(ofte)]. 1608.
THE SUPPOSES (I Suppositi): A comedie
written in the Italian Tongue by A. and Englisshed
by G. Gascoygne. In. ('A Hundreth Sundrie
Flowers, etc.') [1572].
TWO TALES. Tr. by R[obert] T[ofte]. 1597.
'Ariosto', says Hallam, 'has been, after Homer, the favourite poet of
Europe.'
A. based his epics on the writings of Virgil. He was Spenser's favourite
poet, who suggested the style and form used in the 'Faerie Queene'.
'Orlando Furioso' is closely imitated from Boiardo's 'Orlando Innamorato.'
His 'Satyres' are written in the Horatian manner.
ARISTOPHANES, b. 448, d. 380 B.C. The most
famous comic poet of Greece.
THE BIRDS OF A. From the Text of Dindorf.
With notes by H. P. Cookesley, 1834.
THE CLOUDS: a comedy (423) Tr. by Mr.
Theobald, 1715.
COMEDIES (5). Tr. by T. Mitchell, 1820-3.
THE FROGS: a comedy. Tr. by C. Dunster,
[1780].
A PLEASANT COMEDY ENTITLED HEY
FOR HONESTY, DOWN WITH KNAVERY. Tr.
by Thos. Randorph, 1651.
THE WORLD'S IDOL; or, PLUTUS THE GOD
OF WEALTH. From the Greek by H. H. B. 1659.
The comedies of A. bear a close resemblance to the work of our comic
playwriters to-day.
ARISTOTLE, b. 384, d. 322 B.C. Greek philosopher.
ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC ... MADE ENGLISH
... [with a preface subscribed H. C.] In four books.
1656.
THE ART OF LOGIC.... Tr. from the Latin of
the Dialectica of P. de La Ramée, 1626.
THE ART OF POETRY. With Dacier's notes.
1705.
DE ANIMA. The History of Animals and Treatise
on Physiognomy. Tr. 1809.
The Same. With notes and tr. by E. Wallace, 1882.
ARISTOTLE ON THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION.
Tr. F. G. Kenyon, 1891.
THE ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE, THAT IS TO
SAYE, PRECEPTS OF GOOD BEHAVIOURE,
AND PERFIGHTE HONESTIE. Tr. [by J.
Wilkinson]. 1547.
TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT. Tr. by W.
Ellis, 1776.
POLITIQUES, translated out of Greek into
French, with Expositions, by Loys le Roy, called
Regius. Tr. out of French into English, 1597.
THE PROBLEMS OF ARISTOTLE, WITH
OTHER PHILOSOPHERS AND PHISITIONS....
1597.
WORKS OF ARISTOTLE, translated and illustrated
with copious Elucidations. By Thomas
Taylor, 10 v. 1806-12.
'In the history of Western civilization there is no example of any other
philosopher having exerted so great an influence on the minds of men as
Aristotle'.
'A. dominated the thinking of the Middle Ages' (Schoolmen).
Puttenham's 'Art of English Poesie', Sidney's 'Defence of Poesie',
and Dryden's 'Of Dramatic Poesie', all influenced by A.
ARRIAN. b. 146, d. 170. Greek historian.
ARRIAN'S HISTORY OF ALEXANDER'S EXPEDITION....
By John Rooke, Arrian's Indian-History....
2 v. 1729.
ARTHOUR AND MERLIN. Ed. Turnbull, Abbotsford
Club, 1838.
Ed. Wheatley. E.E.T.S., 1869-99.
ARTHUR.
ARTHUR, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN. A
Book of the Noble Hystoryes of Kynge Arthur, and of
Certeyn of his knyghtes, reduced into Englysshe by
Syr Thomas Malory, Kynght and by me William
Caxton. 1485.
Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King' and Arnold's 'Tristram and Iseult'
are taken from the above legends.
(Also noticed under Anglo-Saxon collections.)
'In 1155 the Jersey Norman, Robert Wace, converts and amplifies
Geoffrey's work into the French romance "Brut d'Engleterre" or "Geste
des Bretons", introducing for the first time the Table Round. This again
is developed in English verse by Layamon in his "Brut" of 1205. From
various sources and by various hands, the Arthurian legends are increased.
Milton for a time was strongly attached to this subject, and
in his "Epitaphium Damonis" he shows the hold which the Arthurian
legends had taken upon him, and he explicitly proposed to make Arthur
and the British knights the subject of an epic'.
ARTHUR. 14th century.
Ed. Furnivall, E.E.T.S., 1864.
ARTHUR OF LITTLE BRITAIN. THE HYSTORY
OF ARTHUR OF LYTELL BRYTAYNE,
translated out of Frensshe in to Englishe, by the
noble Johan Bourghcher, Knyght, Lord Berners.
1493.
Not the Arthurian legend, but irresponsible adventures like the Amadis.
Said to have had a great influence on Spenser's Faerie Queene.
Arthur and Charlemagne are among the first and
original heroes of romance, in whose chronicles are displayed
the characters, the leading subjects, and the
fundamental fictions which have supplied such ample
matter to this form of composition. 'As Geoffrey's
history is the grand repository of the acts of Arthur, so a
fabulous history, ascribed to Archbishop Turpin, is the
groundwork of all the legends told of the conquest of
Charlemagne and his twelve peers'.
AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE, a love story, edited
in old French and rendered in modern English
... by F. W. Bourdillon. Fr. and Eng.
1887.
AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE: done into English
by A. Lang, 1887.
[A quaint and naïve little Provençal chante fable of the 12th century.]
AUERBACH, BERTHOLD. b. 1812, d. 1882. German-Jewish
writer and poet.
BAREFOOTED MAIDEN. Tr. E. H. Wehnert.
1857.
BLACK FOREST TALES. (1843). Tr. J. E.
Taylor, 1849.
A faithful record of German conditions in the early half of 19th
century.
BRIGITTA. Tr. C. Bell, 1880.
CINDERELLA OF THE BLACK FOREST. Tr.
1861.
CHRISTIAN GELLERT, etc. Tr. 1858.
COUNTRY HOUSE ON THE RHINE. (1870).
3 v. 1870.
EDELWEISS. Tr. 1869.
FLORIAN AND CRESCENY. Tr. M. Taylor, 1853.
[GELLERT THE STEPMOTHER]. Tr. 1882.
GOOD HOUR, THE. Tr. H. W. Dulcken. [1876].
JOSEPH IN THE SNOW AND THE CLOCKMAKER.
Tr. Lady Wallace. 3 v. 1861.
LITTLE BAREFOOT. Tr. 1872.
ON THE HEIGHTS. Tr. 1867.
PROFESSOR'S WIFE. Tr. 1851.
TALES OF THE BLACK FOREST. Tr. 1890.
TWO STORIES. Tr. [1869].
VILLAGE TALES, FROM THE BLACK FOREST.
Tr. M. Taylor. 2 v. 1846-47.
AUGUSTINE, ST. b. 353, d. 430. The most illustrious
Latin Father of the Church.
THE CONFESSIONS ... OF S. AUGUSTINE
(397). Tr. [by Sir. T. Matthew], together with a
large preface, etc. 1620.
THE MYRROUR OF THE CHURCH, MADE BY
SAYNT AUSTYN OF ABYNDON. Tr. 1521.
THE RULE OF ST. AUGUSTINE, BOTH IN
LATYN AND ENGLYSSHE, WITH TWO EXPOSYCYONS.
By Rycharde Whytforde, 1525.
ST. AUGUSTINE OF THE CITIE OF GOD:
with the learned comments of J. L. Vives. (413-26)
Englished by J. Healey, 1610.
A WORKE OF THE PREDESTINATION OF
SAINTS, wrytten by the famous doctor S. Augustine,
and translated ... by N. Lesse, Londoner. Item.
Another worke of the sayde Augustyne, entytuled.
OF THE VERTUE OF PERSEVERANCE TO
THE END Tr. by N. L[esse]. 1550.
The 'City of God' was influenced by Plato's 'Republic', as also was
Bacon's 'Atlantis' and More's 'Utopia'.
AURELIUS, MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.
See under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
AULUS GELLIUS. See Gellius, Aulus.
AUNGERVYLE, RICHARD. See Richard de Bury.
AUSTRIAN AND HUNGARIAN ANTHOLOGIES:
COLLECTIONS.
BOWRING, Sir J. POETRY OF THE
MAGYARS. 1830.
BUTLER, E. D. Tr. HUNGARIAN POEMS
AND FABLES FOR ENGLISH READERS. 1877.
LOEW, W. N. Editor. GEMS FROM PETOFI
AND OTHER HUNGARIAN POETS. 1881.
[Enlarged and revised as Magyar Poetry, 1899].
VERNALAKEN, FRIEDRICH T. Tr. IN THE
LAND OF MARVELS: Folk Tales of Austria and
Bohemia. Tr. by Johnson. 1884-8.
AVESTA. See ZEND AVESTA.
BACON, ROGER, b. 1214, d. 1294. Franciscan
Friar, philosopher, mathematician.
DISCOVERY OF THE MIRACLES OF ART
AND NATURE, AND MAGIC. Tr. 1597.
THE CURE OF OLD AGE AND PRESERVATION
OF YOUTH. Tr. 1683.
MIRROR OF ALCHEMY. Tr. 1597.
INEDITED WORKS. Ed. by J. S. Brewer. 1859.
THE FAMOUS HISTORIE OF FRYER BACON.
16th Century.
'Containing the Wonderful Things that he did in
his life: also the manner of his death; with the lives
and deaths of the two Coniurers, Bungye and Vandermast.
An Elizabethan version of an earlier story of
the great Franciscan (1214-92) and his achievements,
which are after the manner of the time ascribed to
necromantic powers. Notable as the story on which
Greene based his finest play'.
BALBO, CESARE. b. 1789, d. 1853. Italian writer
and statesman.
TONIOTTO AND MARIA; A TALE OF THE
CONSCRIPTION. Tr. [1872].
LIFE AND TIMES OF DANTE ALIGHIERI....
Tr. F. J. Bunbury. 2 v. 1852.
BALZAC, HONORÉ DE. b. 1799, d. 1850. French
novelist.
AFTER DINNER STORIES. Tr. 1885.
BUREAUCRACY. Tr. by K. P. Wormeley. 1889.
CESAR BITTOREAU. (1838.) Tr. by J. H.
Simpson, 1860. [Vol. 1. of the Balzac Series].
CHOUANS, THE. (1829.) Tr. 1889.
COMEDY OF HUMAN LIFE. Tr. by K. P.
Wormeley. 1885.
COUNTRY DOCTOR. (1833.) Tr. 1887.
COUSIN PONS. (1846.) Tr. 1885.
DUCHESSE DE LANGEAIS. (1834). Tr. 1885.
EUGENE GRANDET. (1833.) Tr. 1886.
GREAT MEN OF THE PROVINCES. Tr. 1893.
HOUSE OF CLAES. Tr. 1887.
HUMAN COMEDY. Tr. E. Sedgwick, etc., 1895.
LOUIS LAMBERT. (1832.) Tr. by K. P. Wormeley,
1889.
MAGIC SKIN. Tr. 1888.
MODESTE MIGNON. (1844.) Tr. 1888.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: or, LA MARANA.
Tr. 1842. [1st Series of 'Scènes de la Vie Parisienne'.]
PERE GORIOT: or, UNREQUITED AFFECTION.
Tr. 1860.
SERAPHITA. (1831-3.) Tr. by G. F. Parsons,
1889.
TWO BROTHERS. 1888.
His acuteness of observation and brilliant fancy, often unnatural and
extravagant, has largely influenced modern English romancists.
BANDELLO, MATTEO. b. 1480, d. 1561. Italian
novelist and Dominican monk.
CERTAIN DISCOURSES. Tr. by Geffrie Fenton,
1567.
THE TRAGICAL HISTORYE OF ROMEUS
AND JULIET, written first in Italian by Bandello,
and now in Englishe by Ar.[thur] Br.[oke]. 1562.
A MOST LAMENTABLE AND TRAGICAL
HISTORIE, WHICH A SPANISH GENTLEWOMAN
NAMED VIOLENTA EXECUTED UPON
HER LOVER DIDACO.... Newly translated into
English meeter by T. A. [Thomas Acheley]. 1576.
'The Bishop of Agen, was the most important of the Italian novellieri.
His "Novello" is a popular story, derived from the French fabliau, full of
spirited action, and true to the life of his time'.
Shakespeare, Massinger and other English dramatists derived some of
their plots from B. Thus 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Measure for Measure',
'Othello', etc., are all from the 'Novello'. The Elizabethans also imitated
B. largely.
The stories of Bandello enjoyed a wide vogue in France and England,
and formed matter for the exploitation of every class of our Elizabethan
dramatists and writers of fiction.
BARBADILLO, DON ALONSO GERONIMO DE SALAS
b. 1580, d. 1630. Spanish poet and dramatist.
FORTUNATE FOOL. Tr. from the Spanish by
Philip Ayres. 1670.
BARBOUR, JOHN. b. 1316, d. 1396.
THE BRUCE. Ed. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1870-77.
The Bruce is a history in verse of the life and deeds of Robert Bruce.
BARCLAY, JOHN. b. 1582, d. 1621.
ARGENIS; or THE LOVES OF POLIARCHUS
AND ARGENIS. 1611.
'A political allegory, written originally in Latin. B. reconstructs the
map of Europe, and, giving classical names to the important personages of
the era of the religious wars, weaves an elaborate and perplexing romance
full of surprises and of double meanings'.
BARON MUNCHAUSEN. (German, 16th century.)
Falsely reputed to be the work of Bürger, the ballad-writer and author of
'Lenore'. 'Perhaps the most perfectly ridiculous set of impossible lies
ever invented'.
GULLIVER REVIVED; or THE SINGULAR
TRAVELS, CAMPAIGNS, VOYAGES, AND
ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNIKHOUSEN,
COMMONLY CALLED MUNCKHAUSEN. Tr.
1785.
BATTLE OF FINNSBURG. Fragment only. Text
with Tr. by Thorpe, 1855.
BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES P. b. 1821, d. 1867.
French poet and critic.
ECHOES FROM THE FRENCH POETS. An
Anthology from Baudelaire, etc. Tr. 1870.
TRANSLATIONS FROM C. B. Tr. R. H.
Shepherd, 1869.
BAUMBACH, RUDOLPH. b. 1841. German poet.
SUMMER LEGENDS. Tr. 1889.
TALES FROM WONDERLAND. Tr. Mrs. H. B.
Dole. [1890].
BAYLE, PIERRE. b. 1647, d. 1706. French philosopher
and critic.
AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY,
[1696] by Monsieur Bayle. Translated with
corrections ... by the Author. 4 v. 1710.
This work exerted a great influence over the literature and philosophy
of Europe before the French Revolution.
BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON
DE. b. 1732, d. 1799. French dramatist.
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE; or, THE USELESS
PRECAUTION: a comedy in four acts [in prose]
with songs, etc. [1775]. [Tr. by E. Griffith] 1776.
THE FOLLIES OF A DAY; or THE MARRIAGE
OF FIGARO. (1784.) A comedy [in five acts and in
prose]. Tr. by T. Holcroft, 1785.
THE SCHOOL FOR RAKES: a comedy [in five
acts and in prose]. Tr. by E. Griffiths. 1769.
BEDE. SURNAMED 'THE VENERABLE'. b. 673,
d. 735. English monk and ecclesiastical writer.
BEDE'S HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF
ENGLANDE. Tr. by Thomas Stapleton. 1565.
[King Alfred Tr. this work into Anglo-Saxon.]
COMPLETE WORKS OF BEDE. Tr. by J. A.
Giles, 12 v. 1843-44. v. 1: Letters, etc. v. 2-3,
Historia Ecclesiastica. v. 4, Historical Tracts.
v. 5, Homilies. v. 6, Scientific Tracts. v. 7-12,
Commentaries on Scriptures.
BENYOVSZKY, MAURICE A. b. 1741, d. 1786.
Hungarian writer.
MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS.... 2 v. Tr. [W.
Nicholson] 1789.
BEOWULF.
A semi-fabulous hero of Denmark, who forms the subject of a celebrated
epic poem in West Saxon supposed to have been written in the ninth century.
THE POEM OF BEOWULF. Tr. by J. M.
Kemble, 1837.
The MS. is in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum (Codex Vitellius,
A. xv.). Grímr Jónsson Thorkelin, an Icelandic scholar, had two
copies made of it in 1815. Through this edition the poem became known
in England, Germany and Denmark, but Sharon Turner gave the first
account of it in 1805. In 1833 (2nd edition, 1835) J. M. Kemble issued a
complete edition of the text of Beowulf, and in 1837 translated the whole
of it into English.
BERANGER, PIERRE JEAN DE. b. 1780, d. 1857.
French lyric poet.
ONE HUNDRED SONGS, with translations by
W. Young, 1847.
SONGS OF BERANGER, translated by the author
of the 'Exile of Idria', 1837.
BERGERAC, SAVINIEN CYRANO DE. b. 1620, d.
1655. French litterateur and dramatic author.
SATYRICAL CHARACTERS AND HANDSOME
DESCRIPTIONS IN LETTERS. Tr. from the
French, by a Person of Honour. 1658.
HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN THE SUN AND
MOON, done into English by Tho., St. Serf, Gent. 1659.
COMICAL HISTORY OF THE STATES AND
EMPIRES OF THE WORLD OF THE MOON
AND SUN; newly Englished by A. Lovell, 1687.
1st Tr. 1638.
VOYAGE TO THE MOON WITH SOME ACCOUNT
OF THE SOLAR WORLD, done from
the French by S. Derrick. 1753.
To this philosophical romance on the system of Descartes, Swift is supposed
to have been greatly indebted: the journey to the moon being the
origin of Swift's Brobdignag, and that to the sun suggesting the voyage to
Laputa.
BERGSOL, WILHELM GORGEN. b. 1835. Danish
author.
BRIDE OF ROERVIG. Tr. N. Francis, 1877.
BERNARD, CHARLES DE. Pseud. (Charles Bernard
D. de La Villette). b. 1805, d. 1850.
French novelist.
LION'S SKIN AND THE LOVER HUNT. Tr.
1853.
LOVER AND THE HUSBAND. Tr. 1841.
BERNI, FRANCESCO. b. 1610, d. 1673. Italian
orator, poet, and dramatic author.
THE ORLANDO INNAMORATO. Tr. W. S.
Rose, 1823.
THE ENCHANTED LAKE OF THE FAIRY
MORGANA, from O. I. Tr. 1806.
BEYLE, MARIE-HENRI. [H. B. DE STENDHAL.
L. A. C. BOMBET.] b. 1783, d. 1842. Versatile
French litterateur.
THE CHARTREUSE OF PARMA (1839). Tr.
1895.
RED AND BLACK: a story of provincial France.
(Le Rouge et le Noire 1830). Tr. 1898.
BÈZE, THEODORE. b. 1519, d. 1605. French
Calvinistic theologian and scholar.
A BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS. Wherein are set forth the cheefe points
of the Christian Religion. Tr. by A. Golding, 1574.
A BRIEFE AND PITHIE [sic] SUMME OF
THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, MADE IN FORME OF
A CONFESSION.... Tr. by R(obert) F(yll), 1565.
A BRIEFE DECLARATION OF THE CHIEFE
POYNTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
Tr. 1556.
A DISCOURSE by M. T. DE BEZA, CONTAINING
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF M. JOHN CALVIN,
... Tr. by I. S., [1570].
AN ORATION MADE BY MASTER T. DE
BEZE.... ACCOMPANIED WITH XI OTHER
MINISTERS AND XX DEPUTIES OF THE
REFOURMED CHURCHES OF THE REALM OF
FRAUNCE.... 1562.
PROPOSITIONS AND PRINCIPLES OF DEVINITIE....
Tr. by John Penry, 1591.
THE TREASURE OF TRUETH.... Tr. by J.
Stockwood. Whereunto are added, These Godly
Treatyses, etc.... 1576.
[Note. Herbert in his edition of Ames's 'Typographical Antiquities'
notices a former edition entitled 'Treatise of Truth'. Tr. by Whittingham,
Geneva, about 1556.]
B. was profoundly versed in ancient literature, and contributed most
to the great movement of the renaissance.
BIBLE, THE.
The first English translation was made by John
Wycliffe in 1383.
The first Protestant translation of the whole Bible
is considered as the joint production of Tyndale and
Coverdale.
E.g. BIBLIA. The Bible, that is, the holy
Testament of the Olde and Newe Testament, faithfully
and truly translated out of the Douche and
Latyn into English, 1535.
[Ordered by Henry VIII to be laid in the choir of every church 'for
every man that will to look and read therein'.]
BIBLE. [MATTHEW]. The Byble, which is all
the holy Scripture: in which are contayned the Olde
and Newe Testament truely and purely translated
into Englyssh by Thomas Matthew, 1537.
BIBLE. [THE BISHOP'S]. The Holie Bible
conteyning the Olde Testament and the newe. 1568.
BIBLE. [AUTHORISED VERSION]. The holy
Bible, conteyning the old Testament and the new:
newly translated out of the originall Tongues, and
with the former translations diligently compared and
revised by his maiesties speciall commandment. 1611.
'If we were to take our greatest authors and read them through, pencil
in hand; if we were to mark those words and images and turns of expression
which we feel to be derived consciously or unconsciously from the
English version of the Hebrew Bible, we should be amazed to find how
much of purely literary strength and dignity that one book has added to
our tongue'.—T. G. Tucker.
A TABULAR VIEW OF THE EVOLUTION
OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE.
The Bible before the invention of Printing.
I. A.D. 597-1382—The Middle Ages: Metrical
Paraphrases, Glosses, and Translations from
the Latin Vulgate and from the so-called
'Old Latin'.
II. A.D. 1382—The Wycliffe-Hereford Bible.
A.D. 1388—A Revision of the above Bible, by
Purvey and Others.
The Printed Bible of the Sixteenth Century.
III. A.D. 1525—Tyndale New Testament.
A.D. 1530—Tyndales (part of the) Old Testament.
The last two are from the Original Greek and Hebrew.
A.D. 1535 and 1537 Coverdale's Bible (the first
complete Bible in English) [Not from the
Greek and Hebrew.]
A.D. 1537—Matthew's Bible [mainly from a compilation
from Tyndale and Coverdale.]
A.D. 1539—Taverner's Bible [A private revision of
Matthew's, and comparatively unimportant.]
A.D. 1539 [The first edition of the Great Bible;
the second edition of which (with Cranmer's
Preface) is dated 1540.]
A.D. 1560—The Genevan Bible.
A.D. 1568—The Bishop's Bible.
A.D. 1582—The Rheims New Testament (from the
Vulgate).
The Seventeenth Century.
IV. A.D. 1610—The Douai Old Testament (from the
Vulgate).
A.D. 1611—The Authorised Version.
The Nineteenth Century.
V. A.D. 1881—The Revised New Testament.
A.D. 1885—The Revised Old Testament.
A.D. 1895—The Apocrypha.
From 'The Evolution of the English Bible', by H. W. Hoare.
BIDPAI. See PILPAY.
BION. B.C. Greek poet. See Anacreon.
BJÖRNSON, B. b. 1832. Norwegian author.
ARNE. Tr. A. Plesner and S. Rugeley-Powers.
1866.
BRIDAL MARCH, etc. Tr. R. B. Anderson, 1882.
CAPTAIN MANSANA. Tr. R. B. Anderson, 1882.
FISHER-MAIDEN. Tr. M. E. Niles, 1869.
HAPPY BOY. Tr. H. R. G., 1870.
HERITAGE OF THE KURTS. Tr. C. Fairfax,
1892.
LIFE BY THE FELLS AND FIORDS. Tr. 1879.
LOVE AND LIFE IN NORWAY. Tr. Hon. A.
Bethell and A. Plesner. [1870].
MAGNHILD. Tr. R. B. Anderson, 1883.
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE. Tr. S. and E.
Hjerleid, 1870.
NORSE TALES. Tr. R. B. Anderson, 1883.
OVIND. Tr. E. Hjerleid, 1869.
THE RAILROAD AND THE CHURCHYARD,
etc. Tr. C. Larsen, 1870.
SIGURD SLEMBE. Tr. W. M. Payne, 1888.
BLANCHARDIN AND EGLANTINE.
THE HISTORYE OF KYNGE BLANCHARDYN
AND QUEEN EGLANTYNE. Impr. by Wm.
Caxton, 1485. Ed. by Dr. Leon Kellner, E.E.T.S.,
1889.
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. b. 1313, d. 1375. The
most famous of the Italian novelists.
DECAMERON [1358]. The modell of Wit, Mirth,
Eloquence, and Conversation. Framed in ten dayes,
of an hundred curious pieces by seven Honourable
Ladies and three Noble Gentlemen. Preserved to
posterity by the renowned J. B.... and now Tr. in
English, 1625. [Written in 1348-58. First printed
in 1470. Vol. 1 only. The Edition of this translation,
published in 1620, was anonymous].
THE BOKE CALLED DE JOHN BOCHAS
DESCRIUINGE THE FALLE OF PRINCIS,
PRINCESSIS AND OTHER NOBLES, translated
into Englissh, by John Lydgate, etc., 1494.
NOVELS AND TALES. Tr. 1684.
Boccaccio directly borrowed his 'Teseide' from Statius' 'Thebaid',
A.D. 70. Introduced the octave stanza. The 'Knight's Tale' and
'Troilus and Cressida' of Chaucer are from the 'Teseide' of B., as also
is Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida' from the 'Filostrato.' 'All's Well
that Ends Well' is also from B. Chaucer borrowed very freely from him.
The 'Decameron' suggested to Chaucer his plan for the 'Canterbury
Tales', and also some of the 'Tales' themselves, and its influence on the
development of the English novel was enormous.
'The "Decameron" consists of a hundred stories supposed to be related
in ten consecutive days, by a party of ten ladies and gentlemen, who had
retreated to a charming asylum from plague-stricken Florence in the year
1348. Some of the stories are tragedies, some are comic, some idylls. B.
took most of his plots from the current fiction of his time, from the popular
French fabliaux, from Oriental and classical sources, from actual history,
and from tradition'.
For other copyings from B. it may be enough to mention Lydgate's 'Falls
of Princes' and the 'Mirror for Magistrates' (1559) based on the 'De Casibus
Illustrium Virorum' of the Italian.
BODIN, JEAN. b. 1530, d. 1596. French representative
and political writer.
THE SIX BOOKES OF A COMMONWEALE,
OUT OF THE FRENCH AND LATINE COPIES.
Done into English by Richard Knolles, 1606.
This work was once read at our universities.
BOETHIUS. b. 470, d. 525. Roman philosopher
and statesman.
THE BOKE OF CONSOLACION OF PHILOSOPHIE.
Tr. by Geoffrey Chaucer. [1490]. Printed
by Caxton.
[This work was first translated by King Alfred into
Anglo-Saxon.]
'Boethius stood to the Dark Ages for the exemplar of the philosopher.
His place in mediaeval reading was very high, and may be gauged from
the fact that in England Alfred the Great translated his "Consolations"
into Anglo-Saxon. To Chaucer, as to all the mediaeval world, "Boece"
was part of the staple library'.
BOIARDO, MATTIO MARIA. b. 1434, d. 1494.
Italian poet.
ORLANDO INNAMORATO. [Charlemagne Romances].
The three first Bookes done into English
Heroical Verse (1480). Tr. by R(obert) T(ofte). 1598.
Milton was influenced by B. in his 'Paradise Regained'.
'Orlando Innamorato' was left unfinished by B., and was afterwards
finished by Ariosto under the title of 'Orlando Furioso'.
BOILEAU (or, BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX) NICOLAS
b. 1636, d. 1711. French poet and satirist.
THE ART OF POETRY (1674). [In verse.] Tr.
1683.
A DISCOURSE OF SATIRES ARRAIGNING
PERSONS BY NAME. Tr. 1730.
LUTRIN. A mock heroic poem. Tr. by N. O.
1682.
POSTHUMOUS WORKS. Tr. 1713.
A SATIRE [Translation of the Eighth Satire of B.
on man]. 1801.
SATIRES. Tr. 1808.
THE WORKS OF MONSIEUR BOILEAU MADE
ENGLISH BY SEVERAL HANDS. To which is
prefixed his life by Mr. Des Maizeaux. (Tr. by J.
Ozell) and some account of this translation by N.
Rowe. 1712-13.
Roscommon's 'Essay on Translated Verse' is derived from Boileau's
French 'Art de Poetique'. One of the 'correct' school. Pope and Addison
were largely influenced by B. The former's 'Essay on Criticism' is inspired
by him. Boileau himself was influenced by the 'De Arte Poetica' of Horace.
BONNOT DE CONDILLAC (ÉTIENNE). See Condillac.
BOOK OF THE DEAD. (PER-EM-HRU.)
'A collection of prayers and exorcisms composed at various times for
the benefit of the pilgrim-soul in his journeys through Amente (the Egyptian
Hades)'.
See Birch, Dr. Egypt's Place in Universal History.
Vol. v. 1867. [Based on Lepsius' imperfect Turin
Text. 1842.]
See also Article in Budge, E. A. Wallis. Dwellers
on the Nile (chapter 9) 1885.
This work has been printed in full from MSS. in the British Museum.
Ed. by E. A. W. Budge, with facsimiles trs. by Budge.
BOSSUET, JACQUES BENIGNE. b. 1612, d. 1704.
French divine and eminent pulpit orator.
A DISCOURSE ON THE HISTORY OF THE
WHOLE WORLD ... EXPLICATING THE CONTINUANCE
OF RELIGION WITH THE CHANGES
OF STATES AND EMPIRES, FROM THE CREATION
TILL THE REIGN OF CHARLES THE
GREAT. Faithfully Englished (1679). 1686.
AN EXPOSITION OF THE DOCTRINE OF
THE CATHOLIQUE CHURCH, IN THE POINTS
OF CONTROVERSIE WITH THOSE OF THE
PRETENDED REFORMATION. Tr. by W.
M.(ontague). 1672.
HISTORY OF FRANCE, FROM PHARAMOND
TO CHARLES IX. Tr. 1762.
THE HISTORY OF THE VARIATIONS OF THE
PROTESTANT CHURCHES.... Tr. 2 v. 1742.
QUAKERISM A-LA-MODE: or HISTORY OF
QUIETISM.... Tr. 1698.
VIEW OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY. Tr. by
James Elphinston, 1778.
BOTTA, CARLO. b. 1766, d. 1837. Italian poet
and historian.
HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Tr. G. A. Otis. 3 v. 1820-21.
HISTORY OF ITALY DURING THE CONSULATE
AND EMPIRE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.
2 v. Tr. 1828.
BOURDEILLES (PIERRE DE) SEIGNEUR DE
BRANTÔME. See Brantôme.
BOURGET, PAUL C. J. b. 1852. French novelist.
LAND OF PROMISE. Tr. 1895.
A LOVE CRIME. Tr. [1887].
A CRUEL ENIGMA. Tr. J. Cray, 1887.
A TRAGIC IDYLL. Tr. 1896.
A LIVING LIE. Tr. J. de Villiers, 1896.
OUTRE-MER. Impressions of America. Tr. 1895.
A SAINT AND OTHERS. Tr. J. Gray, 1892.
BRANDES, GEORGE MAURICE COHEN. b. 1842.
One of the most brilliant of modern writers.
EMINENT AUTHORS OF THE 19TH CENTURY.
Tr. by R. B. Anderson, 1886.
IMPRESSIONS OF RUSSIA. Tr. by S. C.
Eastman, 1889.
LORD BEACONSFIELD. A Study.... Authorised
translation by Mrs. G. Sturge, 1880.
MAIN CURRENTS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY
LITERATURE. 6 v. Tr. 1890, etc.
SHAKESPEARE: A critical study. Tr. by Wm.
Archer, M. Morison and D. White, 1898.
His thorough criticism has given rise to what may be called a new school
of criticism in the North of Europe.
BRANDT, SEBASTIAN. b. 1458, d. 1521. German
satirist.
SHYP OF FOLYS OF THE WORLDE (Narrenschiff,
1494). Tr. out of Laten, French and Doche
into the Englysshe Tonge. By Alexander B. Preste
[Barclay]. 1509.
'"The Narrenschiff" or "Ship of Fools" was imitated in the sixteenth
century by the English Barclay, and was the parent of a considerable satirical
progeny during the century.'
BRANTÔME, PIERRE DE BOURDEILLES, SEIGNEUR
DE. b. 1540, d. 1614. French historian
and litterateur.
SPANISH RHODOMONTADES, AS ALSO ...
PROOFS OF A TRUE HEROISM. Tr. M. Ozell, 1741.
BREMER, FREDERIKA. b. 1801, d. 1865. Swedish
novelist.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS: a tale of Domestic
Life. Tr. 1848.
THE H— FAMILY, ETC. (1831.) Tr. 1844.
THE NEIGHBOURS, ETC. (1837.) Tr. 1842.
THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTERS. Tr. 1843.
BRENTANO, CLEMENS. b. 1778, d. 1842. German
novelist and poet.
HONOR ... Tr. 1847.
THE WONDROUS TALE OF COCKY, CLUCKY,
AND CACKLE. Tr. C. W. Heckethorn. [1889].
FAIRY TALES FROM B. Tr. K. F. Kroeker.
[1884].
BRUNETIÈRE, FERDINAND. b. 1849. French
critic.
MANUAL OF THE HISTORY OF FRENCH
LITERATURE. Tr. R. Derechef, 1898.
BRUNO, GIORDANO. b. 1548, d. 1600. Eminent
Italian philosopher.
THE EXPULSION OF THE TRIUMPHANT
BEAST. (Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante.) Tr. by
Wm. Morehead, 1713.
BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE.
b. 1707, d. 1788. French naturalist and philosopher.
NATURAL HISTORY, GENERAL AND PARTICULAR,
illustrated, and with occasional notes and
observations by the Translator William Smellie.
(1749-67) 1781. (The Edition of 1812 is the only
complete English Translation.)
An extraordinary impulse was given by Buffon to the study of natural
history in his own country, and his work had a great influence upon English
naturalists.
BURGER, GOTTFRIED AUGUST. b. 1747, d. 1794.
German poet.
THE CHASE, AND WILLIAM AND HELEN:
two ballads from the German of G. A. B. [By Sir W.
Scott.] 1796.
LEONORA (with the Text). Tr. by W. R.
Spencer, 1796.
SPECIMENS OF GERMAN LYRICS: consisting
of translations from ... Burger, 1823.
B. is the reputed author of 'Baron Munchausen.'
'CABALLERO, FERNAN'. b. 1800, d. 1876.
Spanish statesman and journalist.
SEA GULL. Tr. A. Bethell, 1867.
ELIA; or SPAIN FIFTY YEARS AGO. Tr. 1868.
AIR BUILT CASTLES, etc. Tr. 1887.
BIRD OF TRUTH. Tr. 1881.
SILENCE IN LIFE, AND FORGIVENESS IN
DEATH. Tr. J. J. Kelly, 1883.
CASTLE AND THE COTTAGE IN SPAIN. Tr.
Lady Wallace. 2 v. 1861.
THE ALVAREDA FAMILY. Tr. Viscount
Pollington, 1872.
CAEDMON. d. 680. 'The father of English song'.
DREAM OF THE HOLY ROOD. [With Trs.
in parallel columns.] Ed. by J. M. Kemble. In
Codex Vercellensis. Aelfric Soc. 1843-56.
HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE CREATOR. Ed.
Napier, 'mod. lang. notes', 1889.
POETICAL PARAPHRASE OF PARTS OF
SCRIPTURE. Ed. Thorpe (with Eng. tr.), 1832.
JUDITH. Ed. Prf. A. S. Cook. Tr. Lib. Anglo-Saxon
Poetry. 1888.
RUTHWELL CROSS. Ed. H. Sweet. In the
Oldest Eng. Texts. 1885.
HOLY ROOD, DREAM OF THE. Ed. J. M.
Kemble, with tr. In Cod. Vercell. 1843-56.
METRICAL PARAPHRASE OF SCRIPTURE.
Tr. by B. Thorpe, 1832.
CÆSAR, CAIUS JULIUS. b. 100, d. 44 B.C. Roman
general, statesman and historian.
COMMENTARIES, NEWLY TRANSLATYD
OWTE OF LATIN IN TO ENGLYSHE AS MUCH
AS CONCERNED THYS REALME OF ENGLAND
SUMTYME CALLYD BRYTAYNE. By J. Tiptoft,
1530.
THE EYGHT BOOKES OF CAIUS JULIUS
CÆSAR, CONTEYNING HIS MARTIALL EXPLOYTES
IN THE REALME OF GALLIA AND
THE COUNTRIES BORDERING UPON THE
SAME. Tr. by A. Goldinge. [With an Epistle
Dedicatory] ... 1565.
CALDERON, DE LA BARCA, PEDRO. b. 1600,
d. 1681. Spanish dramatist.
DRAMAS OF CALDERON: Tragic, Comic, and
Legendary.... Tr. by D. F. McCarthy, 2 v. 1853.
THE FAIRY LADY ... KEEP YOUR OWN
SECRET. Tr. by Lord Holland, 1807.
FORTUNE MENDS: a comedy. Tr. by F.
Holcroft, 1805.
JUSTINIA: a play. Tr. by F. Holcroft, 1805.
SIX DRAMAS OF CALDERON. Tr. by E.
Fitzgerald, 1853.
Calderon was the great religious dramatist of Spain. His numerous
plays are of a lofty theological and idealistic order, and are inspired by
an intense religious fervour.
CALIDAS. See Kalidasa.
CALILAH I DIMNAH.
DONI. The morall philosophie of Doni, englished
out of Italian by Sir Tho. North, 1570.
[This celebrated fable book is best known in Europe as 'Pilpay's Fables';
see also under Indian.]
CALPRENÈDE, G. DE COSTES DE LA. See Costes.
Gautier de.
CALVIN, JOHN. b. 1509, d. 1533. The greatest
of the Protestant reformers.
COMMENTARIES OF J. C. UPON THE FIRST
EPISTLE OF SAINT JHON AND UPON THE
EPISTLE OF JUDE. [1560.]
COMMENTARY OF JOHN CALVINE UPON
THE PROPHET DANIELL. Tr. by A. G. i.e.
A. Golding, 1570.
THE EPISTLE OF JHON CALVYNE (whether
it be lawfull for a chrysten man to communicate or
be partaker of the masse of the Papystes, etc.) [1549].
A FAYTHFUL AND MOSTE GODLY TREATYSE
CONCERNYNGE THE MOST SACRED SACRAMENT
OF THE BLESSED BODY AND BLOUDE
OF OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST, compiled by J.
Calvine ... translated into Englisshe by a faythful
brother.... Wher unto is added the order that the
Church and congregatiõ of Christe in Denmarke
doth use. (Set forth by N. Coverdale). 1550.
THE INSTITUTION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION
(Christianæ Religionis Institutio, 1536), translated
according to the Author's last Edition (by Thomas
Norton), 1561.
THE MYNDE OF M. JHON CALVYNE; what a
faithful man, whiche is instructe in Worde of God,
ought to do, dwellinge amongest the Papistes. (Tr.
by R. G.), 1548.
OF THE LIFE OR CONVERSATION OF A
CHRISTEN MAN; a right godly treatise, wyrtten
[sic] in the latyn tonge by Maister J. Calvyne. Tr. by
T. Brooke, etc. [1549].
A VERY PROFITABLE TREATISE ...
DECLARYNGE WHAT GREAT PROFIT MIGHT
COME TO AL CHRISTENDOME, YF THERE
WERE A REGESTER MADE. Tr. by S. Wythers
[1561.]
Influence tremendous, but indefinable. Has affected all religious writers,
directly or indirectly.
CAMOENS, LUIZ DE. b. 1524, d. 1558. Portuguese
poet.
LUSIADS, OR PORTUGALLS HISTORICALL
POEM. Tr. by Richard Fanshaw, 1655.
CAMPE, JOACHIM H. See Kampe, J. H.
CANTÙ, CESARE. b. 1805, d. 1895. Italian
historian.
LORD BYRON AND HIS WORKS. Tr. [1883].
THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE. Tr. F.
Prandi. Vol. 1. 1847.
CARDUCCI, GIOSUE. b. 1836, d. 1907. Italian poet.
POEMS. Tr. F. Sewall, 1892.
CARLEN, B. F. b. 1807, d. 1892. Swedish novel
writer.
THE BROTHER'S BET. Tr. 1867.
THE GUARDIAN. Tr. 1865.
CARLOVINGIAN ROMANCES.
See under:
SIR FERUMBRAS, FOUR SONS OF AYMON.
HUON OF BORDEAUX, CHARLES THE GREAT,
etc.
CAROVÉ, F. W. b. 1789, d. 1852. German critic.
STORY WITHOUT AN END. Tr. S. Austen, 1834.
STORY OF GOTTFRIED AND BEATA. Tr.
A. Moline, 1844.
CHILD AND THE HERMIT. Tr. [1840?].
CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE.. b. 1487, d. 1529.
Italian writer.
CORTIGIANO. THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER,
(1518). Done into English by Sir T. Hoby,
1561.
Influenced English court ideals.
CATO, DIONYSIUS. 4th century. Latin moralist.
Here begynneth the prologue or prohemye of the
book called Caton, etc.
Here fynysshed this present book, whiche is called
Cathon translated oute of Frensshe in to Englysshe
by W. Caxton. 1483.
CATULLUS, CAIUS VALERIUS. b. 84, d. 54 B.C.
Latin poet.
THE ADVENTURES OF CATULLUS, AND
HISTORY OF HIS AMOURS WITH LESBIA.
Intermixt with translations of his choicest poems.
By several hands. 1707.
The most passionate and lyrical of all the Latin poets.
Catullus was very largely influenced by Sappho's 'Odes of Love', 610
B.C. Catullus and Horace combined form type for English odes, such as
Ben Jonson wrote, addressed to 'Lesbia', 'Celia', 'Delia', etc.
CAXTON, WM. b. 1422, d. 1491. Scholar and
printer.
THE CRONICLES OF ENGLOND. Westmynstre,
10 June 1480. The Discripcion of Britayne,
Westmynstre, 18 August, 1480.
[This work is sometimes called the 'Chronicle of St. Alban's', and sometimes
'Caxton's Chronicle', also 'Fructus Temporum'.]
Mentioned here as England's first printer. Translated and printed many
books, but mostly of a popular nature.
CELESTINA.
THE SPANISH BAWD REPRESENTED BY
CELESTINA; OR THE TRAGICK COMEDY OF
CALISTO AND MELIBEA. Tr. [by James Mabbe]
1631.
CELESTINA, THE FAIR ... DAUGHTER TO
THE KING OF THESSALIE. Done out of French
into English [by W. Barley?]. 1596.
CELLINI, BENVENUTO. b. 1500, d. 1571. Italian
artist.
THE LIFE OF B. C.... AND THE HISTORY
OF HIS OWN TIME. Written by himself (1558)
and ... translated by T. Nugent. 1771.
CELTIC, ETC., ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.
CAMPBELL, J. F. Ed. and Tr. POPULAR
TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS. [4 v.
1860-62.] 1890-91.
[Orally collected, with trs. One of the most important collections of
folk-tales in the whole literature of folk-lore, ranking with Grimm's German
collections.]
CROKER, T. CROFTON. Ed. FAIRY LEGENDS
AND TRADITIONS OF IRELAND. 1825.
[Still the best collection for the south of Ireland.]
CURTIN, JEREM. Tr. MYTHS AND FOLKLORE
OF IRELAND. 1890.
[Orally collected from Gaelic lips.]
JOYCE, P. W. Tr. OLD CELTIC ROMANCES
[Tr. from Gaelic MSS.] 1879.
LAING, D. SELECT REMAINS OF THE ANCIENT
POPULAR POETRY OF SCOTLAND.
1822.
LAING, D. EARLY SCOTTISH METRICAL
TALES. 1826.
NASH, D. W. TALIESIN: trs. of Remains of
Welsh Bards. 1857.
MENZIES, LOUISA. Tr. LEGENDARY TALES
OF ANCIENT BRITONS. 1864.
[Trs. from the chronicles.]
O'GRADY, STANDISH H. Ed. and Tr. SILVA
GADELICA. 2 v. 1892.
[A collection of tales in Irish, with English trs.]
RHYS, JNO. and J. G. EVANS. OLD WELSH
TEXTS. v. 1-4, 1887.
1. 'Red Book of Hergest': Mabinogion, 1887.
2. 'Black Book of Carmarthen', 1888.
3. 'Red Book of Hergest': II. Y Llyvyr Coch o Hergest, 1889.
4. 'Book of Llan Dâv', 1893.
5. 'Book of Aneurin' [Anc. Welsh Poetry, 12th-13th cent.]
SKENE, W. F. Ed. THE FOUR ANCIENT
BOOKS OF WALES. 2 v. 1868.
[Contains the Cymric Poems attributed to the bards of the 6th cent.]
WAIFS AND STRAYS OF CELTIC TRADITION.
1889.
V. 1. 'Craignish Tales', collected by J. MacDougall, with notes, 1889.
V. 2. 'Folk and Hero Tales', ed. and tr. by D. McInnes, 1890.
V. 3. 'Folk and Hero Tales', ed. by J. MacDougall [collected from a
roadman, 1891].
V. 4. 'The Friars', collected by J. G. Campbell, 1891.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. b. 1547,
d. 1616. Spanish novelist.
DON QUIXOTE (1605). Tr. by Thomas Shelton,
1612-20.
A COLLECTION OF SELECT NOVELS, written
originally in Castilian by Don M. C. S. made English
by H. Bridges, 1728.
Butler's 'Hudibras' is a palpable metrical imitation of 'Don Quixote'.
Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Knight of the Burning Pestle' is a still closer
imitation.
The tremendous influence of 'Don Quixote' upon English literature is
difficult to define. He was imitated by the Elizabethans, e.g. Middleton's
'Spanish Gipsy' and Fletcher's 'Fair Maid of the Inn' are both taken
from his 'Novellas Exemplares'.
For 'Exemplary Novels,' see also under Anthologies.
Croxall, S. Select Collection of Novels. Tr. 1720-22.
CHAMISSO, A. VON. b. 1781, d. 1838. French
poet and naturalist.
THE SHADOWLESS MAN: or THE WONDERFUL
HISTORY OF PETER SCHLEMIHL. [1845.]
CHANSONS DE GESTES, 12th and 13th centuries.
A series of long narrative poems dealing with
warfare and adventure. The principal poems of
the Carlovingian Cycle are The Song of Roland,
Ogier le Danois, Renaud de Montauban, Raoul de
Cambrai, Huon de Bordeaux, Les Saisnes, Doon de
Mayence, Gerard de Viane and Hugues Capet.
These were of vast importance in the metrical paraphrases that occupied
the chief period of English Literature in the Middle Ages, had a
very great influence upon the Italian romancers, affected English literature
through Spenser and others, and influenced more particularly the
Elizabethan period.
CHARLEMAGNE ROMANCES.
BOIARDO, MATTIO M. ORLANDO INNAMORATO.
The three first Bookes done into English
Heroical Verse (1480). Tr. by R(obert) T(ofte). 1598.
CAXTON, WILLIAM. THE LYF OF THE
NOBLE AND CRYSTEN PRINCE CHARLES
THE GRETE, translated by Wm. Caxton. 1485.
(Reissued by the Early English Text Society, 1880-1.)
CAXTON, WILLIAM. THE RIGHT PLEASANT
AND GOODLY HISTORY OF THE FOUR
SONNES OF AYMON. 1489.
(Reissued by the Early English Text Society, 1884-5.)
BOURCHIER, SIR JOHN, Lord Berners. THE
BOKE OF DUKE HUON OF BURDEUX. 1534.
(Also 1601, and Early English Text Society, 1882-7. Abridged edition
by Robert Steele, 1895. Also Valentine and Orson, newly corrected and
amended, 1637. Original French edition, Lyons, 1489.)
CHARRON, PIERRE. b. 1541, d. 1603. French
advocate, philosopher, and author.
OF WISDOME, THREE BOOKES. Tr. S. Lennard.
[1615?].
ON WISDOM. Tr. Geo. Stanhope, 1697.
CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANÇOIS RENÉ, VICOMTE
DE. b. 1768, d. 1848. French writer.
ATALA, or THE LOVE AND CONSTANCY OF
TWO SAVAGES IN THE DESERT. Translated
from the French of F. A. C., by C. Bingham. 1802.
RENÉ: a tale. Tr. 1813.
TRAVELS IN GREECE, PALESTINE, EGYPT
AND BARBARY, 1806-7. Tr. by F. Shobert, 1811.
CHERBULIEZ, CHARLES VICTOR. b. 1826, French
novelist.
BLUE-EYED META HOLDENIS, AND A
STROKE OF DIPLOMACY. Tr. 1881.
LOW-BORN LOVER'S REVENGE. Tr. 1881.
MISS ROVEL. Tr. 1875.
A PHIDIAN HORSE. Tr. E. H. B. Roberts, 1893.
TRIALS OF JETTA MALAUBRET. Tr. 1886.
TUTOR'S SECRET. Tr. [P. Derecheff] 1893.
WISH OF HIS LIFE. 2 v. Tr. 1878.
WITH FORTUNE MADE. Tr. M. L. Simkins,
1896.
CHESTER MYSTERIES. Cir. 1268.
Ed. Thomas Wright, Shakespeare Soc., 1843-47.
T. H. Markland, Roxburghe Club, 1818 (two plays).
CHEVELERE ASSIGNE. Ed. Utterson, Roxburghe
Club, 1820, and Lord Aldenham, E.E.T.S.,
Ex. Ser. vi.
A prose version of the tale of the Knight of the Swan will be found in
Thoms. See also p. 81.
CHINESE ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.
Poetical. Fairy Tales. Folk-Tales and Traditional
Literature.
DAVIS, SIR JOHN F. Tr. CHINESE NOVELS
translated from the Originals. 1822.
DOUGLAS, ROB. K. Tr. CHINESE STORIES.
1892.
FIELDE, ADELE W. Tr. CHINESE NIGHT'S
ENTERTAINMENTS. 1893.
GILES, H. A. Tr. GEMS OF CHINESE LITERATURE.
1884.
GILES, H. A. STRANGE STORIES FROM A
CHINESE STUDIO. 2 v. 1880.
STENT, G. C. Tr. THE JADE CHAPLET, in
24 beads, 1874.
[Chinese songs, ballads, etc.]
CHRYSOSTOM, ST. JOHN. b. 347, d. 407. Eminent
Greek father.
A COMPANION FOR THE SINCERE PENITENT....
Tr. by J. Veneer, 1728.
THE GOLDEN BOOK OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF
CHILDREN. Tr. by J. E(velyn). 1659.
HIS SIX BOOKS CONCERNING THE PRIESTHOOD.
Tr. by H. Hollier. [1728.]
AN HOMILIE OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
UPON THE SAYINGS OF ST. PAUL.... [Part of]
THE FIFT HOMELIE AGAYNST THE JEWS.
Tr. by T. Chaloner, 1544. [1574.]
A SERMON OF SAINT CHRYSOSTOME WHERIN
... HE WONDERFULLY PROVETH THAT
NO MAN IS HURTED BUT OF HYM SELFE.
Tr. by T. Supsette, 1542.
CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. b. 106, d. 43 B.C.
Roman orator, statesman and philosopher. Often
called Tully by English writers.
THE BOKE OF TULLE OF OLDE AGE. [Tr.
into English by W. Worcester] etc. TULLIUS
DE AMICICIA. Tr. by [John Tiptoft], Earl of
Worcester. THE ARGUMENT OF THE DECLAMACYON
... [a Tr. by J. Tiptoft of two Orations,
etc. The whole edited by Wm. Caxton. 1481.]
THE BOKE OF FRIENDSHIP, see the above,
Tullius de Amicicia.
THE CHOSEN ELOQUENT ORATIONS FOR
THE POET ARCHAIS, selected from his Orations
and now first published in English, 1571.
DE ORATORE. Tr. by G. P(arry), 1723.
DE REPUBLICA. Scipio's Dream, or the Statesman's
Extasie. Tending to prove the immortalitie of
the Soul as the proper merit of Justice. [Tr. by E.G.S.]
1627.
THE FAMILIAR EPISTLES. (Epistolæ ad Familiares).
Tr. by J. Webbe, 1570.
LETTERS: SELECTIONS. A very necessary
entrance to speaking and writing the Latin Tongue.
Tr. by T. W. 1575.
ORATIONS ... Pro M. MARCELLO. The oration
which Cicero made to Cæsar giving thanks to
him for pardoning M. Marcellus. Tr. 1555.
THE ORATIONS OF M. TULLIUS CICERO.
Tr. ... with notes ... 1745-52.
THE THREE BOOKES OF TULLYES OFFYCES,
BOTHE IN LATYNGE TONGE AND IN ENGLYSSHE,
lately translated by Roberte Whytinton,
1534.
THOSE FYUE QUESTIONS WHICH MARKE
TULLYE CICERO DISPUTED IN HIS MANOR
AT TUSCULANUM. Tr. by John Dolman, 1561.
TULLY'S FIVE BOOKS DE FINIBUS. Translated
by S. P. Gent. (Saml. Parker), revised by J.
Collier ... with an apology for the Philosophical
Writings of Cicero, by Henry Dodwell. 1702.
TULLY'S THREE BOOKS TOUCHING THE
NATURE OF THE GODS. (De Natura Deorum.)
1683.
Orators and preachers of the 17th and 18th centuries based their style
upon Cicero. He formed what is known as the 'Johnsonian' style. Burke,
Fox, Pitt and Gladstone modelled themselves on Cicero.
'It is not too much to say that the highest eloquence of Italy, France
and England has at all times striven to be Ciceronian.'
CID. b. 1040, d. 1099. Spanish hero.
The Moorish appellation of a celebrated Castilian hero, who was born
at Burgos about 1040, and whose proper name was Rodrigo or Ruy Diaz de
Bivar. He was also surnamed Campeador ('the Champion'). A poem of
which the Cid is the subject, composed by 'the Homer of Spain', an author
whose name is unknown.
CID ROMANCES.
The most important of the Cid literature is the poem written about the
12th cent., and probably the oldest document in the Spanish language.
GIBSON, J. YOUNG. Tr. THE CID BALLADS,
[AND OTHER POEMS]. Ed. Margaret D. Gibson.
2 v. 1887.
LEWIS, G. Tr. THE CID BALLADS. 1883.
LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON. Tr. ANCIENT
SPANISH BALLADS. Historical and Romantic.
1823.
[Contains ballads afterwards omitted.]
ORMSBY, JOHN. Tr. POEMS OF THE CID.
1879.
SOUTHEY, R. Tr. AMADIS OF GAUL. 1872.
SOUTHEY, R. Tr. CHRONICLES OF THE
CID. [Prose.] 1808.
Translated from three books, (1) 'Chronica del Cid', (2) 'Chronica Genera
de España', (3) 'Poema del Cid' (composed, c. 1135-75).
CODEX EXONIENSIS: Collection of Anglo-Saxon
Poetry. Ed. Benj. Thorpe, with tr., 1842.
Also under Anthologies, General, and Exeter
Book.
CODEX VERCELLENSIS, Anglo-Saxon Poetry of
the. Ed. J. M. Kemble, 2 pts., with tr., 1843-56.
Also under Anthologies, General and Vercelli
Book.
COMENIUS (KOMENSKÝ) JOHANNES AMOS. b.1592,
d. 1671. Slavic educator and bishop.
A CONTINUATION OF J. A. COMENIUS,
SCHOOL ENDEAVOURS; or, A SUMMARY
DELINEATION OF DR. CYPRIAN KINNER, Etc.
Translated out of the original Latine, transmitted to
Sam. Hartlibb, and by him published. 1648.
THE GATE OF TONGUES UNLOCKED AND
OPENED, or else A SEMINARY or SEED PLOT
OF ALL TONGUES AND SCIENCES. In Latin,
English and French, by J. Anchoran. 1639.
NATURALL PHILOSOPHIE REFORMED BY
DIVINE LIGHT; or, A SYNOPSIS OF PHYSICS,
etc. Translated from the Latin, 1651.
A PATTERNE OF UNIVERSALL KNOWLEDGE,
IN A PLAINE AND TRUE DRAUGHT,
etc. Tr. into English by J. Collier, 1651.
A REFORMATION OF SCHOOLES, designed in
two treatises, etc. And now translated into English
by S. Hartlibb. 1642.
He was invited to several foreign countries for the purpose of reforming
the methods of public instruction.
COMMINES, PHILIPPE DE. b. 1445, d. 1509. French
historian.
HISTORY. (1523). Englished by Sir T. Danet,
1596.
'This most judicious and able history, which comprises a period of thirty-four
years during the reigns of Lewis XI and Charles VIII of France, was
said by Catherine de Medicis to have made as many heretics in politics,
as Luther's works had done in religion'. Highly praised for its fidelity,
candour, and deep insight into men and things.
COMTE. ISIDORE AUGUSTA MARIE FRANÇOIS
XAVIER. b. 1798, d. 1857. French philosopher.
APPEAL TO CONSERVATIVES. Tr. T. C.
Donkin and R. Congreve, 1889.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS. Tr.
from the Cours de Philosophie Positive of A. C.
(1822) by W. M. Gillespie. Tr. 1851.
THE POSITIVIST LIBRARY (IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY) OF AUGUSTE COMTE.
Tr. and Ed. F. Harrison, 1886.
THE POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY OF AUGUSTE
COMTE, freely translated and condensed ... by
Harriet Martineau, 3 v. 1852.
COMTE'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES.
Tr. by G. H. Lewes, 1847.
RELIGION OF HUMANITY ... SUBJECTIVE
SYNTHESIS, OR UNIVERSAL STATE OF
HUMANITY, etc. [Tr. R. Congreve]. Vol. 1. 1891.
CONDILLAC, ETIENNE BONNOT DE. b. 1715,
d. 1780. French philosopher and metaphysician.
AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN
KNOWLEDGE. Being a supplement to Mr. Locke's
Essay on the Human Understanding. Tr. by Thos.
Nugent, 1756.
CONDORCET, JEAN ANTOINE NICOLAS DE CARITAT.
b. 1743, d. 1794. French philosopher.
REFLECTIONS ON THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION,
1688, and that of August 10, 1792. Tr. 1792.
LIFE OF VOLTAIRE. 2 v. Tr. 1790.
CONFUCIUS. b. 551 B.C. The most illustrious of
the Chinese philosophers.
MORALS OF CONFUCIUS. Tr. 1691.
WORKS, containing the original Text and a
Dissertation on the Chinese Language and Character.
By J. Marshman (vol. i. only published). 1809.
CONSCIENCE, HENDRIK. b. 1812, d. 1883.
Flemish novelist.
COUNT HUGO OF CRAENHOVE. (1845.) Tr.
1867.
THE DEMON OF GOLD. (De Geldduivel 1856.)
Tr. 1857.
THE GOOD MOTHER. (1844.) Tr. 1852.
HAPPINESS OF BEING RICH. Tr. 1888.
IRON TOMB. Tr. 1889.
THE LION OF FLANDERS (De Leeuw von
Vlaenderen 1838). Tr. 1838.
OFF TO CALIFORNIA. Tr. by J. F. Cobb, 1884.
THE PROGRESS OF A PAINTER. Tr. 1852.
SKETCHES FROM FLEMISH LIFE, in three
tales. Tr. 1846.
TALES. 10 v. Tr. 1888-92.
VEVA: or THE WAR OF THE PEASANTS:
an historical tale. Tr. 1855.
THE VILLAGE INNKEEPER. (1851) Tr. 1867.
CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, HENRI BENJAMIN
DE. b. 1767, d. 1830. French orator, politician
and litterateur.
ADOLPHE.... [Tr. A. Walker] 1816.
ON THE POLITICAL DOCTRINE CALCULATED
TO UNITE PARTIES IN FRANCE.
Tr. T. E. Darby, 1817.
COPPÉE, FRANÇOIS, b. 1842, d. 1908. French
poet.
TEN TALES. Tr. Walt. Learned, 1892.
BLESSED ARE THE POOR. Tr. 1894.
THE NEWSPAPER WOMAN. Tr. T. L. Oxley,
1880.
THE WAIF. Tr. 1880.
THE PASSER-BY. A comedy. Tr. 1885.
FOR THE CROWN. A play. Tr. 1896.
THE TREASURE. Tr. 1895.
CORNEILLE, PIERRE. b. 1606, d. 1684. French
dramatist.
AMOROUS ORONTUS. Tr. by J. Bulteel, 1665.
THE CID. (1636.) Tr. by J. Rutter, Part I. 1637.
THE EXTRAVAGANT SHEPHERD. Tr. by
T. R. 1653.
HERACLIUS, EMPEROUR OF THE EAST.
Tr. by L. Carlell, 1664.
HORATIUS: a Roman Tragedy. Tr. by Wm.
Lower, 1656.
THE LABYRINTH, OR THE FATAL EMBARRASSMENT.
Tr. 1776.
MAXIMIAN. Tr. by Lady S. Burrell, 1800.
MELITE (1629). 1776.
NICOMEDE. (1653.) Tr. by John Dancer, 1671.
POMPEY. Tr. by Mrs. C. Philips, 1663.
RODOGUNE, or THE RIVAL BROTHERS (1646).
Tr. (by Sampson Aspinall), 1765.
The French declamatory tragedy of Corneille takes as its type the drama
of Seneca. The works of C. influenced the post-Restoration dramatists.
COSTES, GAUTIER DE, SEIGNEUR DE LA CALPRENÈDE.
b. 1616 (?), d. 1680 (?). French
writer of fiction.
CASSANDRA, THE FAM'D ROMANCE. (1642.)
Rendred into English by Sir C. Cotterell, 1652.
CLEOPATRA. Hymen's Præludia (1647) ...
being the first part of that much admired romance,
intituled Cleopatra. Tr. by R. Loveday, 1652.
PHARAMOND; or THE HISTORY OF FRANCE.
Tr. by J. Phillips, 1677.
These works when translated into English were much read. Dryden's
'Secret Love' taken from the 'Grand Cyrus' and Settle's 'Ibrahim'.
COTTIN, MME. b. 1773, d. 1807. French novelist.
ELIZABETH: or THE EXILES OF SIBERIA.
Tr. 1809.
AMELIA MANSFIELD. Tr. 1803.
CLARA. Tr. 2 v. 1808.
MALVINA. Tr. 1810.
MATILDA AND MALEK ADHEL. Tr. 1833.
COUSIN, VICTOR. b. 1792, d. 1867. French metaphysician,
philosopher and author.
INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF
PHILOSOPHY. Tr. H. G. Linberg, 1832.
COURSE OF THE HISTORY OF MODERN
PHILOSOPHY. Tr. G. W. Wight, 2 v. 1852.
ELEMENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY. Tr. 1834.
PHILOSOPHY OF THE BEAUTIFUL. Tr.
J. C. Daniel, 1848.
ON THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN HOLLAND.
Tr. 1838.
JUSTICE AND CHARITY. Tr. W. Hazlitt, 1848.
COVENTRY MYSTERIES. Cir. 1392.
Ed. Halliwell, Shakespeare Soc., 1841.
CRÉBILLON, C. PROSPER JOLYOT DE. b. 1707,
d. 1777. French Novelist.
THE WANDERINGS OF THE HEART AND
MIND.... Tr. M. Clancy, 1751.
LETTERS FROM THE MARCHIONESS DE
M. Tr. 1737.
THE SOPHA: a moral tale. Tr. 1781.
THE SKIMMER. Tr. 1735.
CURSOR MUNDI. A non-religious poem.
Ed. R. Morris, E.E.T.S., 1874-91.
CURTIUS, QUINTUS. Roman historian.
THE HISTORIE OF QUINTUS CURTIUS,
CONTAINING THE ACTES OF THE GREATE
ALEXANDER. Tr. John Brende, 1561.
LIFE AND DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE
GREAT. Tr. Thos. Codrington, 1652.
CYNEWULF. 8th century?
JULIANA. Ed. W. Strunk. Belles Lettres
Series.
JULIANA, ST., Legend of. Pt. of Codex Exon.
Tr. 1842.
THE CHRIST. Ed., Text and Tr. J. Gollancz,
1892.
ANDREAS, AND FATES OF THE APOSTLES.
Ed. W. M. Baskervill, Albion Series.
DESCENT INTO HELL. Ed. W. H. Hulme,
with The Christ. Belles Lettres Series.
DREAM OF THE ROOD, or, VISION OF THE
CROSS. Ed. A. S. Cook, 1905.
PHŒNIX. Pt. of Codex Exon. Tr. 1842.
RIDDLES. Pt. of Codex Exon. Tr. 1842.
ELENE. Pt. of Codex Vercell. Tr. 1843-56.
GUTHLAC (Doubtful). Goodwin, C. W. Ed.
The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Life of St. Guthlac.
Tr. 1848.
HARROWING OF HELL. Pt. of Codex Exon.
Tr. 1842.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC (SAVINIEN). See Bergerac.
D'ALEMBERT. See ALEMBERT.
DANTE ALIGHIERI. b. 1265, d. 1321. Italian
poet.
THE DIVINA COMMEDIA, consisting of the
Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Tr. by Rev.
Henry Boyd. 1802.
DIVINE COMEDY. INFERNO. A Literal
Prose Translation by J. A. Carlyle, 1849.
THE INFERNO. Tr. by Chas. Rogers, 1782.
THE INFERNO OF DANTE. Tr. by Rev.
Henry Cary. 1806.
THE VISION OF HELL, PURGATORY AND
PARADISE OF DANTE. Tr. by Rev. Henry
Cary. 1814.
[VITA NUOVA.] CANZONIERE, including the
Poems of the Vita Nuova and the Convito, Italian
and English. Tr. by Charles Lyall, 1835.
Dante utilized the epic of Virgil as the basis for his poems. Influenced
Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. 'House of Fame' and 'Parliament of Fowles'
by Chaucer show borrowings and translations from D.
'Dante set modern Europe a great example, a model of sublimity in
literature; though he did indeed supply English writers with many a
thought and phrase, nevertheless his influence is chiefly indirect'.
DAUDET, ALPHONSE. b. 1840, d. 1897. French
dramatist and novelist.
ARTISTS' WIVES. (1874.) Tr. 1889.
BELLE NIVERNAISE. (1887.) Tr. 1888.
EVANGELIST; or, PORT SALVATION. (1883).
Tr. 2 v. 1885.
KINGS IN EXILE. (1879). Tr. 1896.
MY BROTHER JACK; or THE STORY OF
WHAT-D'YE-CALL 'EM. Written by himself. Tr.
by L. Ford (1873), 1877.
THE NABOB. A story of Parisian life and Manners.
Tr. by E. Clarequin (1877). 1878.
THE NEW DON QUIXOTE; or, THE WONDERFUL
ADVENTURES OF TARTARIN OF TARASCON,
(1872).... Tr. by C. Roland, 1875.
NUMA ROUMESTAN; or, JOY ABROAD AND
GRIEF AT HOME. (1881.) Tr. 1884-86.
ONE OF THE FORTY (L'IMMORTAL). (1888.)
Tr. by Verrall, 1888.
PORT TARASCON. (1890). Tr. 1890.
RECOLLECTIONS OF A LITERARY MAN.
Tr. by Ensor, 1889.
ROBERT HELMONT: Diary of a Recluse.
(1871.) Tr. 1888.
ROSE AND NINETTE. Tr. 1892.
SAPPHO: a romance (1884). Tr. by J. and R.
Maxwell, 1886.
TARTARIN IN THE ALPS. (1885). Tr. 1886.
THIRTY YEARS OF PARIS AND OF MY
LITERARY LIFE. Tr. 1888.
WORKS. Tr. H. Frith, L. Ensor, E. Barlow, etc.
9 v. 1896.
DELILLE, JACQUES. b. 1738, d. 1813. French poet
and academician.
THE GARDENS; or THE ART OF LAYING
OUT GROUNDS. Tr. 1789.
THE RURAL PHILOSOPHER; or FRENCH
GEORGICS. Tr. by John Maunde, 1801.
DEMOSTHENES. b. 383, d. 322 B.C. Greek orator.
THE THREE ORATIONS OF DEMOSTHENES,
IN FAVOUR OF THE OLYNTHIANS. Tr. by Thos.
Wylson, 1570.
The influence of D., though considerable, is indirect through Latin literature.
'All Roman orators were avowed students of Greek methods'.
'That Demosthenes is the prince of orators everybody knows'.
DENINA, CARLO G. M. b. 1731, d. 1813. Italian
historian.
AN ESSAY ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF LITERATURE.
Tr. by John Murdoch. [1771.]
A DISSERTATION, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL,
ON THE ANCIENT REPUBLICS OF
ITALY. Tr. John Langhorne, 1773.
DESCARTES, RENÉ. b. 1596, d. 1650. French
philosopher and mathematician.
DESCARTES' EXCELLENT COMPENDIUM OF
MUSICK: WITH ANIMADVERSIONS THEREUPON.
By a person of Honour (Lord Brounkes).
1653.
A DISCOURSE OF A METHOD FOR THE WELL
GUIDING OF REASON AND THE DISCOVERY
OF TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES (Discours de la
Méthode, 1637). Tr. 1649.
LIFE OF R. DESCARTES, containing the History
of His Philosophy and works. Tr. 1693.
A NEW VOYAGE TO THE WORLD OF CARTESIUS.
Tr. by Thos. Taylor, 1692.
THE PASSIONS OF THE SOULE, in three books.
Translated, with prefatory letters, 1650.
His works manifest original, daring and independent genius, endowed
with great force and subtlety of thought. Spinoza derived from him his
pantheism, and Berkeley his pure idealism. His influence was almost universal
in the seventeenth century. Newton demonstrated his more simple
physical principles.
DIDEROT, DENIS. b. 1713, d. 1784. French philosopher
and savant.
DORVAL, or THE TEST OF VIRTUE. A
Comedy [in five acts and in prose]. Tr. 1767.
AN ESSAY ON BLINDNESS, etc. Interspersed
with several anecdotes of Sanderson, Milton, and
others. Tr. [1750].
THE FAMILY PICTURE: a play (Père de
Famille); with verses on different subjects. By a
Lady, 1781.
RAMEAU'S NEPHEW. [1805]. Tr. by S. M.
Hill, 1897.
THOUGHTS ON ART AND STYLE. Tr. 1893.
A satire on Parisian society, as it was just before the Revolution, in the
form of a dialogue, which gives a view of the world as seen through the eyes
of a parasite.
His reputation is founded upon the 'Encyclopædia, ou Dictionnaire
raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et Métiers'. This was written in conjunction
with d'Alembert.
DIGBY MIRACLE PLAYS. Ed. W. Sharpe, 1835.
DIODORUS SICULUS. B.C. 50. Greek historian.
HISTORY OF THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER,
SURNAMED THE GREAT. Tr. Thos.
Stocker, 1569.
HISTORY OF THE WORLD, done into English
by G. Booth, 1700.
DOSTOIEFFSKY, FEDOR. b. 1822, d. 1881. Russian
novelist.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Tr. 1886.
THE IDIOT. Tr. 1887.
INJURY AND INSULT. Tr. 1886.
UNCLE'S DREAM AND PERMANENT HUSBAND.
1888.
BURIED ALIVE. Tr. 1881.
THE PERMANENT HUSBAND. Tr. 1888.
THE GAMBLER. Tr. 1887.
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY. Tr. 1887.
POOR FOLK. Tr. L. Milman, 1894.
DU BARTAS, G. SALUSTE, SR. b. 1544, d. 1590.
French Statesman and poet.
BARTAS HIS DIVINE WEEKES AND WORKES
... Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus,
Josvah Sylvester, Gent. 1605-7.
There are many selections from Sylvester's translation of Du B., a
work to which Milton was evidently greatly indebted.
BABILON.... Tr. by W. Lisle. 1596.
A CANTICLE OF THE VICTORY OBTAINED
BY THE FRENCH KING HENRIE THE
FOURTH. At Yvry. Tr. by J. S. Marchant, 1590.
COLONIES OF BARTAS, with the Commentary
of S. G. S. Tr. by R. F., 1598.
FIRST DAY OF THE WORLD'S CREATION.
Tr. by J. Jackson, 1596.
HISTORIE OF JUDITH.... Tr. by Tho.
Hudson, 1584.
MIRACLE OF THE PEACE IN FRANCE....
Tr by J. Sylvester, 1599.
SECOND DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF
WILL. DE SALUSTE, LORD OF BARTAS, in
English heroical verse, by Tho. Winter, 1603.
SECONDE WEEKE, or THE CHILDHOOD OF
THE WORLD. Tr. by J. Sylvester, 1598.
THIRD DAYES CREATION. Tr. by Tho. Winter
1604.
THE TRIUMPH OF FAITH. THE SACRIFICE
OF ISAAC. THE SHIP-WRACKE OF JONAS.
WITH A SONG OF VICTORIE OBTAINED BY
THE FRENCH KING AT YVRY. Tr. by J. S.
Marchant, 1590.
DU BELLAY, JOACHIM. b. 1524, d. 1560. Surnamed
the 'French Ovid'.
A TREATISE WHEREIN HE REPRESENTED
... THE MISERIES ... THAT FOLLOW THE
VOLUPTUOUS WORLDLINGS. [With Epigrams
and Sonnets.] Tr. 1569.
COMPLAINTS, Containing sundrie small poemes
of the World's Vanitie. (The Ruines of Rome.) Tr.
by Ed. Sp[enser], 1591.
Du B. and Ronsard are the two most important names of the 'Pléiade'.
The followers of Du B. and R., through the Italian school introduced the
'classical' style of verse into England. Du Bellay served as a pattern
to English writers.
DUCLOS, CHARLES PINAUD. b. 1704, d. 1772.
French historian and academician.
HISTORY OF LOUIS XI, KING OF FRANCE.
2 v. Tr. 1746.
DUKE ROWLAND AND SIR OTUELL. 14th cent.
Ed. S. J. Herrtage. E.E.T.S., 1885.
DUMAS, ALEXANDRE. b. 1803, d. 1870. French
novelist and dramatist.
AMAURY. (1844.) Tr. 1845.
BLACK TULIP. Tr. 1851.
CAPTAIN PAUL. (The Sicilian Bandit.) Tr.
1859.
CHEVALIER DE MAISON ROUGE: a tale of
the Reign of Terror. (1846.) Tr. 1846.
THE COMPANY OF JEHU. Tr. K. P. Wormeley.
2 v. 1895.
THE CONSPIRATORS. Tr. 1847.
COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. (1844.) Tr.
1846.
COUNTESS DE CHARNY. (1853.) Tr. 1858.
FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN. Tr. 1848.
GOOD LADY BERTHA'S HONEY BROTH.
Tr. 1846.
THE HALF BROTHERS. Tr. by L. Lawford,
1858.
MARGUÉRITE DE VALOIS. (1845.) Tr. 1846.
MEMOIRS. 2 v. 1890.
MEMOIRS. 6 v. Tr. 1908.
MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN (1846). Tr. 1846.
PASCAL BRUNO: a Cicilian story (1837). Tr.
1846.
QUEEN'S NECKLACE (1847). Tr. 1849.
REGENT'S DAUGHTER (1844). Tr. 1845.
TAKING THE BASTILE; or, SIX YEARS
LATER. 2 v. Tr. 1847.
THREE MUSKETEERS (1844). Tr. 1846.
TWENTY YEARS AFTER (1845). Tr. 1845.
VIC. DE BRAGELONNE (1868). 2 v. Tr. 1868.
In the 19th century Dumas exercised a vast influence on the English
historical romancists. G. P. R. James was his literary offspring entirely.
EBERS, GEORGE MORITZ. b. 1837, d. 1898.
German novelist.
ARACHNE: a historical romance. M. J.
Safford. 2 v. [1898.]
BARBARA BLOMBERG. Tr. M. J. Safford.
2 v. 1897.
BRIDE OF THE NILE. Tr. by C. Bell. 2 v.
1887.
THE BURGOMASTER'S WIFE; a tale of the
Siege of Leyden. (1882.) Tr. 1882.
CLEOPATRA. Tr. M. J. Safford. 2 v. 1894.
EGYPT: Historical and Picturesque. Tr. by
C. Bell, 1881-87.
AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS (Eine Aegyptische
Königstochter, 1864.) Tr. 1870.
THE ELIXIR, and other Tales. Tr. Mrs. E. H.
Bell, 1890.
THE EMPEROR. Tr. 1882.
HOMO SUM. (1878.) Tr. 1878.
IN THE BLUE PIKE. Tr. M. J. Safford. [1896.]
IN THE FIRE OF THE FORGE. Tr. 1895.
MARGERY: Tale of Old Nuremberg. Tr. by
C. Bell. 2 v. 1889.
ONLY A WORD. Tr. 1883.
PER ASPERA. Tr. C. Bell. 2 v. 1892.
SERAPIS. Tr. 1885.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE. Tr. M. J. Safford,
1893.
UARDA: a romance of Ancient Egypt. (1877.)
Tr. 1877.
EMARE. Ed. Ritson; Gough, A. B.
OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS, 1901.
ENGLISH ANTHOLOGIES. See Anthologies,
General, etc.
EÖTVÖS, J. F. b. 1813, d. 1871. Hungarian novelist.
VILLAGE NOTARY. (1844-46.) Tr. 1850.
EPICTETUS. 1st century A.D. Stoic philosopher.
THE MANUELL OF EPICTETUS, translated
out of Greeke into French, and now into English,
conferred with two Latin translations. Hereunto
are annexed annotations, and also the apothegms of
the same author, by J. Sanford, 1567.
He left no written books, but his doctrines were recorded by his disciple
Arrian, in eight books, four of which have come down to us.
EPICURUS. B.C. 342-270. Greek philosopher.
MORALS. Tr. John Digby, with an Essay by
John Johnson, 1712.
EPICURUS MORALS. Tr. W. Charlton, 1656.
[Collection].
ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. b. 1466, d. 1536. Dutch
scholar and philosopher.
APOPHTHEGMES. Tr. by N. Udall. [1542.]
A BOKE CALLED IN LATYN ENCHIRIDION
MILITIS CHRISTIANI AND IN ENGLISH THE
MANUELL OF THE CHRISTEN KNIGHT, replenished
with most holsome precepts to ... the which is
added a newe and mervaylous profytable preface.
[This translation is attributed to Tyndale.] (1515.)
1533.
AN EXHORTATION; or FAMILIAR DISCOURSE
OF D. ERASMUS.... Tr. [by W. Roy?]
1529.
LYFE OF SAYNT ERASMUS. Imp. by Julyan
Notary. [1520.]
A LYTTLE BOOKE OF GOOD MANNERS
FOR CHYLDREN. Tr. by R. Whytynton. 1522.
THE PARAPHRASE OF ERASMUS UPON
THE NEW TESTAMENT. 1548.
THE PRAISE OF FOLIE. (Moriæ Encomium).
(1509.) Englisshed by Sir T. Chaloner, 1549.
A PLAYNE AND GODLY EXPOSITION OR
DECLARATIÕ OF THE CÕMUME CREDE (which
in the Latyn tonge is called SYMBOLUM APOSTOLORUM)
and OF THE X CÕMAUNDMENTES
by GODDES LAW, newly made and put forth by
the famouse clerke, Mayster E. of Roterdame, etc.
[1533.]
PREPARATION TO DEATH, a boke as devout
as eloquent. 1543.
A RYGHT FRUTEFULL EPYSTLE ... IN
LAUDE AND PRAYSE OF MATRYMONY, translated
in to Englishe by R. Tavenour, etc. [1530.]
Pre-eminent as a restorer of learning. He is considered the greatest wit
and most eminent scholar of the age in which he lived, and one of the most
conspicuous and successful of those who laboured to restore classical learning
and sound philosophy.
ERCKMANN, EMIL. b. 1822, d. 1899. CHATRIAN,
ALEX. 1826-90. French novelists.
THE BLOCKADE. Tr. 1869.
CONSCRIPT. Tr. 1865.
DOCTOR MATTHEUS. Tr. 1868.
MADAME THÉRÈSE (1863). Tr. 1868.
POLISH JEW. Tr. 1870.
STORY OF THE PLEBISCITE. Tr. 1872.
WATERLOO. Tr. 1865.
YEAR ONE OF THE REPUBLIC. Tr. [1873].
CITIZEN BONAPARTE. Tr. [1874].
ALSACIAN SCHOOLMASTER. Tr. [1872].
CONFESSIONS OF A CLARIONET PLAYER
[Tr. 1874.]
THE BELLS. Tr. 1872.
THE WILD HUNTSMAN. Tr. [1877].
FRIEND FRITZ. Tr. [1873].
BRIGADIER FREDERIC. Tr. F. A. Malleson,
1875.
THE BROTHERS RANTZAU. 2v. Tr. [1873].
THE GREAT INVASION OF 1813-14. Tr.
[1870].
WAR. Tr. H. L. Williams. [1872].
MAN OF THE PEOPLE. Tr. 1871.
STORY OF A PEASANT. Tr. [1871].
ESPINEL, VINCENT. b. 1544, d. 1634. Spanish
poet and novelist.
THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE SQUIRE
MARCOS DE OBREGON. Tr. into English from
the Madrid Ed. 1618, by Major Algernon Langton.
2 v. 1618.
This novel is generally supposed to have served as a model for that of
Gil Blas.
EUCLID. 3rd century B.C. Greek geometrician.
THE ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY [containing
the xv. books] OF ... EUCLIDE ... now first
translated into the Englishe Toung, by H. Billingsley.
Whereunto are annexed certaine annotations of the
best mathematiciens, etc. 1570.
[The first printed Greek text was published in Basle in 1533.]
EULENSPIEGEL.
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.
[1] Of great interest as being the source of Marlowe's 'Dr. Faustus'
(his greatest play). It is a translation from the German 'Faustbuch'
published at Frankfort, 1587. 'The Second Report ... (a translation of
the 'Wagnerbuch', 1593) is supposed to have been written by an English
gentleman, student at Wittenberg.
FAVINE (FAVYN), ANDREW. French writer.
THE THEATER OF HONOUR AND KNIGHTHOOD:
or A COMPENDIOUS CHRONICLE AND
HISTOIRIE OF THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN
WORLD, 2 v. Tr. 1623.
'This work, which is a translation of "Le Théâtre d'Honneur et de
Chevalerie", comprises the most valuable treatise we have in English upon
the foreign orders of knighthood; there are also discussions upon ceremonies,
combats, precedence, etc., equally worthy the attention of the
antiquary and historian'.—Sir M. M. Sykes.
FÉNELON, FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA
MOTHE. b. 1651, d. 1715. French prelate
and author.
THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMACHUS.
(Télémaque, 1699.) Tr. 1703.
DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE EXISTENCE
OF GOD DEDUCED FROM THE KNOWLEDGE
OF NATURE (Traité sur l'Existence de Dieu.) Tr.
1754.
DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD. (Dialogues des
Morts.) Tr. 1757.
DIALOGUES CONCERNING ELOQUENCE IN
GENERAL. (Dialogues sur l'Eloquence.) Tr. with
quotations and notes by W. Stevenson. 1722.
LIVES OF THE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS ...
illustrated with notes and preceded by a life of F.
by John Cormack. 1803.
TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS.
(De l'Education des Filles.) Tr. and adapted
to English Readers, with an original Chapter on
Religious Studies. By T. F. Dibdin, 1805.
FERUMBRAS. See Sir Ferumbras.
FEUILLET, OCTAVE. b. 1821, d. 1890. French
litterateur.
A WOMAN'S DIARY AND THE LITTLE COUNTESS.
Tr. 1881.
JOURNAL OF A WOMAN. Tr. [1885].
CAMORS; or, LIFE UNDER THE NEW EMPIRE.
Tr. 1868.
THE DISGUISED NOBLEMAN. Tr. 1860.
HONOUR BEFORE WEALTH. A drama. Tr.
[1850.]
A PARISIAN ROMANCE. A Play. Tr. 1883.
ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN. Tr. 1888.
FEYJOO, REV. FATHER B. J. b. 1676, d. 1764.
Spanish critic and moralist.
ESSAYS OR DISCOURSES (29). Tr. from the
Spanish by ... (John Brett), 1777.
AN ESSAY ON THE LEARNING, GENIUS,
AND ABILITIES OF THE FAIR SEX....
Tr. 1774.
THE HONOUR AND ADVANTAGE OF AGRICULTURE.
Tr. 1764.
RULES FOR PRESERVING HEALTH. Tr.
[1800].
FICHTE, JOHANN GOTTLIEB. b. 1762, d. 1814.
German Philosopher.
THE DESTINATION OF MAN. Tr. by Mrs. P.
Sinnett, 1846.
THE POPULAR WORKS OF J. G. F. Tr.
['The Vocation of the Scholar,' 'The Nature of the
Scholar,' 'The Vocation of Man,' 'Characteristics of the
Present Age,' 'The Way towards the Blessed Life',
Etc.]. With a memoir of the author by W. Smith.
1848-49.
THE VOCATION OF MAN. Tr. by W. Smith,
1844.
FIRDUSI or FERDUSI (ABU KASIM MANSUR).
b. 940, d. 1020. Persian poet.
THE POEMS OF FERDOSI. Tr. from the Persian
by Joseph Champion, 1785.
SHAH NÁMA. Tr. and abridged by J. Atkinson,
1832.
Sir William Jones styles the 'Shah-námeh' 'a glorious monument of
Eastern genius and learning, which ... will contest the merit of invention
of Homer himself.'
FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. b. 1821, d. 1880. French
novelist.
BOUVARD AND PECUCHET. (1880.) Tr. 1896.
MADAME BOVARY. (Mœurs de province, 1857.)
Tr. 1886.
SALAMMBÔ (1862). Tr. by M. French Sheldon
[with an Introduction by E. King]. 1886.
THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY.
Tr. D. F. Hannigan, 1895.
FLORIZ AND BLAUNCHEFLUR. Cir. 1250.
Ed. J. R. Lumby, E.E.T.S., 1866.
Ed. Hartshorne. Laing, Abbotsford Club, 1857.
FLORUS, LUCIUS ANNÆUS. 2nd century. Roman
historian.
ROMAN HISTORIES. Tr. [Edmund Bolton],
1618.
FONTENELLE, BERNARD LE BOUYER DE. b.
1657, d. 1757. French litterateur, mathematician
and philosopher.
CONVERSATIONS ON THE PLURALITY OF
WORLDS. Tr. [W. Gardiner]. 1715.
HISTORY OF ORACLES. Tr. 1688.
NEW DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD. Tr. 1692.
NORTHERN WORTHIES; or THE LIVES OF
PETER THE GREAT.... Tr. 1730.
A PLURALITY OF WORLDS. Tr. Mr. Glanvil,
1695.
THE THEORY OR SYSTEM OF SEVERAL
NEW INHABITED WORLDS.... Tr. Mrs.
Behn, 1700.
DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD. Tr. J. Hughes, 1754.
THE PRIZE OF WISDOM. Tr. 1713.
FORTUNATUS. 15th century. German folk tales.
FORTUNATUS. THE RIGHT PLEASANT AND
VARIABLE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF FORTUNATUS.
Now first of all published in English by
T. C. [Thomas Churchyard]. 1612.
'One of the best "people's" books (Volksbücher) ever written'.
Thomas Dekker founded his 'Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus'
(1600) upon this work.
FOSCOLO, N. UGO. b. 1777, d. 1827. Italian poet.
ESSAY ON THE LOVE, THE POETRY AND
CHARACTER OF PETRARCH, comprising numerous
translations by the Author's Friends, Lady
Barberina Dacre, and others. 1823.
NARRATIVE OF THE EVENTS ILLUSTRATING
THE VICISSITUDES AND THE CESSION
OF PARGA, AND THE IONIAN ISLANDS. Tr.
1820.
FOUQUÉ, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL, BARON
DE LA MOTTE. b. 1777, d. 1843. German
poet and romance-writer.
AN ESSAY OF THREE TALES, i.e. The Cypress
Crown, etc. Tr. 1820.
THE MAGIC RING. Tr. 1825.
MINSTREL LOVE. Tr. by G. Soane, 1821.
RED MANTLE. Tr. 1845.
SINTRAM AND HIS COMPANIONS. Tr. [by
J. C. Hare]. 1820.
UNDINE; a romance. Tr. 1818.
FOUR SONS OF AYMON. 1490-91. By Caxton.
Known and tr. as Renaud de Montauban, see p. 36.
Ed. [Miss] O. Richardson. 2 pts. E.E.T.S. 1884.
FOX AND THE WOLF. Ed. T. Wright and Halliwell
in their Reliqueae Antiquae, v. 1, 1841.
This is the first English poem connected with the animal saga.
Probably written during reign of Edward I and based on the Roman du
Reynard.
FRANCE, ANATOLE. b. 1844. French poet,
novelist and critic.
COMPLETE WORKS. Ed. F. Chapman. 1908.
1. THE RED LILY. Tr. W. Stephens, 1908.
2. MOTHER OF PEARL. Tr. T. Chapman, 1908.
3. GARDEN OF EPICURUS. Tr. A. Allinson,
1908.
4. CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD. Tr.
L. Hearn, 1891.
FRANZOS, KARL EMIL. b. 1848. Austrian Jewish
novelist.
THE JEWS OF BARNOW. Tr. M. W. Macdowall,
1882.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE. Tr. M. Corbet, 1890.
FOR THE RIGHT. Tr. 1887.
JUDITH TRACHTENBERG. Tr. Mrs. L. P.
and C. T. Lewis, 1891.
FRENCH ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS. Poetical,
Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales, and Traditional Literature.
AULNOY, MME. D' (= C'ess d'Anois). Ed. FAIRY
TALES. Tr. by Miss Lee and A. Macdonald. 1891.
[The first English Tr. of all the twenty-four stories.]
AULNOY, MME. D'. FAIRY TALES. Tr. by
J. R. Planché, 1855.
COSTELLO, LOUISA. SPECIMENS OF THE
EARLY POETRY OF FRANCE, 1835.
MORRIS, WM. Tr. OLD FRENCH ROMANCES,
done into English. 1896. ('The Tale of King
Constans the Emperor', 'The Friendship of Amis and
Amile', 'The Story of King Florus and the Fair Jehane',
'The History of Over Seas'.)
These four romances belong to the 13th century.
O'HAGAN, J. Tr. THE SONG OF ROLAND.
1882.
[The Chanson de Roland, tr. into English verse.]
OXENFORD, JOHN. THE ILLUSTRATED
BOOK OF FRENCH SONGS. French-English. Tr. by J. O. 1855.
Contains most of the national songs and ballads of France, many of
which have never been tr. before.
['Specimens of the Early Poetry of France' were added later by Louisa S.
Costello.]
TAYLOR, TOM. Tr. BALLADS AND SONGS
OF BRITTANY. 1865.
WAY, G. L. and G. ELLIS. Tr. FABLIAUX:
or TALES FROM THE FRENCH, 3 v. 1796-1800.
ZIMMERN, HELEN. HALF HOURS WITH
FRENCH NOVELISTS. 2 v. 1880.
FREYTAG, GUSTAV. b. 1816. d. 1895. German dramatist and novelist.
DEBIT AND CREDIT. (1855.) Tr. by Mrs.
Malcolm, 1856.
THE LOST MANUSCRIPT. (Die Verlorne Handschrift,
1864.) 1865.
OUR FOREFATHERS. A novel. (1872.) Tr. 1873.
PICTURES OF GERMAN LIFE. 2 Ser. Tr.
1862-63.
The works of F. achieved a very wide popularity, and were translated
into the principal modern languages.
FROISSART, JEAN. b. 1313, d. 1419. French historian and poet.
Here begynneth the First Volum of Sir J. Froissart:
of the chronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne,
Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flãunders: and
other Places Adioynynge. Translated by J. Bouchier,
Knight, Lord Berners, 1523-25.
Froissart's 'Chronicles' deals with the period between 1326-1400. It
is mainly occupied with the affairs of France, England, Scotland and Flanders,
and he also supplies much information in regard to Germany, Italy
and Spain. The work has greatly influenced our literature.
FRONTINUS, SEXTUS JULIUS. b. 40, d. 106. Roman Statesman and tactician.
THE STRATEGEMS, SLEYGHTES, AND
POLICIES OF WARRE. Tr. Rycharde Morysine,
1539.
FULK FITZ WARINE: The History of Fulk Fitz
Warine, an outlawed baron in the reign of King
John. (c. 1320.) Tr. by Thomas Wright, 1855.
'The French paraphrase probably, of an Anglo-Norman chanson de geste,
composed late in the 13th century, traces of poetic diction being
legible in the prose. As interesting, and almost as natural, as a modern
novel; the historical characters forcibly sketched in'.
GAMELYN, Tale of. Ed. W. W. Skeat, 1893.
GARCILASCO DE LA VEGA. b. 1503, d. 1536. Spanish poet.
WORKS OF G. DE LA V., SURNAMED THE
PRINCE OF CASTILIAN POETS. Tr. with a
critical and historical Essay on Spanish Poetry and a
life of the Author by J. H. Wiffen, 1823.
ISABEL ... WITH OTHER POEMS. Tr. [by R. Walpole]. 1805.
Acquired a wide and durable reputation by his pastoral and lyrical poems.
Reformed, with Boscan, Spanish poetry by introducing the Italian measure,
which forms an epoch in the literary history of Spain. G. has been styled
the 'Spanish Petrarch'.
GARCILASCO DE LA VEGA. Surnamed 'The
Inca'. b. 1530, d. 1568. Spanish historian.
He is esteemed for his fidelity and accuracy.
ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF PERU, in two
Parts.... Rendered out of Spanish into English, by
Sir P. Rycaut. Lond. 1688. (Commentarios Reales
que tratan del Origen de los Incas. (1609).)
OBSERVATIONS OF THINGS MOST REMARKABLE,
collected out of the first part of the Commentaries
Royall.... The Supplement of the History
of the Incas, briefely collected out of the Author's
second part. Tr. 1625.
GAUTIER, THÉOPHILE. b. 1811, d. 1872. French
poet, critic, and novelist.
CAPTAIN FRACASSE. Tr. 1888.
MDLLE. DE MAUPIN. Tr. 1887.
ROMANCE OF A MUMMY. 1886.
GELLIUS, AULUS. b. 117, d. 180. Latin grammarian and critic.
THE ATTIC NIGHTS. Tr. Rev. W. Beloe. 3 v. 1795.
GENERIDES. Cir. 1440. Ed. F. J. Furnival,
Roxburghe Club, 1865.
Ed. A. Wright, E.E.T.S., lv., lxx. 1873.
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. b. 1100, d. 1154.
British historian.
THE BRITISH HISTORY. Tr. With a large
commentary by Aaron Thomson, 1718.
Historia Regum Brittaniæ, or Historia Britonum, based, as Geoffrey tells
us, upon a very old book lent him by Archdeacon Walter (Galenius) of
Oxford, probably a volume of Breton Legends. Geoffrey also drew from the
older history of Nennius, but there still remains a large portion of his work
which has not been traced beyond his own pen.
The 'Historia' is looked upon as an epoch-making book, owing to the
impulse it gave to the literature of Romance. Legends afloat among the
natives of Wales and Bretagne were now given a literary garb which rendered
them sufficiently attractive to awaken the interest of the world in
general, and the imagination of the mediæval poet was aroused by the chivalric
glamour which the historian threw over his descriptions of Arthur's
Court. It was a main source, but not the exclusive one of Arthurian
legend, for independent of the fact that many characteristic features
of the latter are not mentioned by him, there is evidence of Welsh fables
being extant in the 12th century, which supplied material for later
romances apart from Geoffrey's history.
This work is the fountain-head of medieval romance, the principal source
of the legends of Merlin and Arthur, which were amplified by the romancers
by material from Celtic tradition. Geoffrey's work is the basis of
Wace's 'Roman de Brut' and of Layamon's 'Brut'.
GERMAN ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS. Poetical,
Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales, and Traditional Literature.
AIKMAN, C. M. Tr. POEMS FROM THE
GERMAN. 1892.
[BECKFORD, WM.]. POPULAR TALES OF
THE GERMANS. 1791.
CARLYLE, THOS. Tr. GERMAN ROMANCES:
specimens of the chief authors, with biographical and
critical notices. 1827.
CARLYLE, THOS. TRANSLATIONS FROM
MUSAEUS, TIECK AND RICHTER. 2 v.
1858.
CRAIGMYLE, ELIZ. Tr. GERMAN BALLADS.
1892.
[A good collection of popular German poetry.]
GILLIES, ROBERT P. GERMAN STORIES.
Selected from the Works of Hoffman, De la Motte
Fouqué, Pichler, Kruse and others, 3 v. 1826.
GRIMM, JAKOB, K. L. GERMAN POPULAR
STORIES. Tr. from the 'Kinder- und Haus-Märchen'
by Edgar Taylor, 1823-26.
HELLMAN, FRANCES. Tr. LYRICS AND
BALLADS OF HEINE AND OTHER GERMAN
POETS. 1892.
HOLCROFT RICHARD. TALES FROM THE
GERMAN. 1826.
LEMON, MARK. Tr. LEGENDS OF NUMBER
NIP. 1864.
OXENFORD, JOHN and C. A. FEILING. Tr.
TALES FROM THE GERMAN, comprising specimens
from the most celebrated authors. [1850.]
ROSCOE. THOS. GERMAN NOVELISTS. 4 v.
1826.
SANTINE, X. B. Ed. MYTHS OF THE RHINE.
Tr. 1840.
'Gives a good sketch of primitive Teuton times, of the Druids, of Odinic
worship, etc.'.
SOANE, GEORGE. SPECIMENS OF GERMAN
ROMANCES. 3 v. 1826.
TAYLOR, W. HISTORIC SURVEY OF GERMAN
POETRY, interspersed with various translations.
3 v. 1828-30.
WESTALL, W. Tr. TALES AND LEGENDS
OF SAXONY AND LUSATIA. 1877.
GERVASE, MONK OF CANTERBURY. C. 1188.
Chronicle of the reigns of Stephen, Henry II.,
and Richard I. Ed. by Stubbs. v. 1-11. Rolls
Ser. 1879-80.
GESTA ROMANORUM. C. 1440. A collection of
tales from various sources, written in Latin.
Was the storehouse of material for many famous
writers.
English Tr. probably made in Henry VI's
time. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1510-15.
Ed. 'Early English Versions' in E.E.T.S., 1899.
'A collection of Stories translated from the Latin
at end of 13th century. Many are of Eastern
origin, others are anecdotes of Roman history; but
all are more or less transformed by the mediæval
imagination and usually endowed with a Christian
moral. Stories of the Virgin, beast fables, miracles,
germs of Shakespeare's plots and La Fontaine's
stories, are among the multifarious contents'.
GIANNONE, PIETRO. b. 1676, d. 1748. Italian
historian.
HISTORY OF NAPLES.... Translated by
Capt. James Ogilvie. 2 v. 1729-31.
GIRALDI, CINZIO GIAMBATTISTA. b. 1504, d.
1573. Italian dramatist and littérateur.
GLI HECATOMITI (or The Hundred Novels).
STORY OF THE MOOR OF VENICE. Tr. by
G.B.G.C. 1795.
These stories enjoyed a wide vogue in France and England, and formed
matter for the exploitation of every class of our Elizabethan dramatists
or writers of fiction. They have a particular interest to students of English
literature as having furnished, whether directly or indirectly, the plots
of 'Measure for Measure', and 'Othello'. That of the latter is said to
have reached Shakespeare through the French translation, while that of
the former is probably to be traced to Wheatstone's 'Promos and Cassandra'
(1578), an adaptation of Cinthio's story, and to his 'Heptameron'
(1582), which contains a direct English translation. To Giraldi must
be also attributed Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Custom of the Country'.
GIRALDUS DE BARRI (CAMBRENSIS). 12th cent.
WORKS. 7 v. Vols. i-iv. Ed. by J. S. Brewer;
vols. v-vii. Ed. J. F. Dimock. Rolls Ser. 1861-77.
IRELAND AND WALES. Tr. Bohn Lbry.
1849.
HISTORICAL WORKS. Tr. and Ed. by T. Wright,
Bohn Lbry. 1863.
GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG. b. 1749, d. 1832.
'The most illustrious name in German literature'.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Tr. by Parke Godwin, 1847.
CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN. Tr.
by John Oxenford, 1850.
ESSAYS ON ART. Tr. by S. G. Wood. [1840.]
FAUSTUS, From the German of Goethe (1790).
Tr. 1821.
FAUSTUS: from the German of Goethe [The
greater part of the 1st trs. in verse and connected
by a prose narrative.] Tr. 1821.
FAUST, a tragedy in two parts, rendered into
English Verse (1790-1831). 1838.
GOETZ OF BERLICHINGEN WITH THE
IRON HAND. An historical drama (1771). Tr. by
Rose D'Aguilar, 1795.
HERMAN AND DOROTHEA: a Poem (1796-7).
Tr. by Thos. Holcroft, 1801.
IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS (1779). Tr. by W.
Taylor, 1793.
LYRICAL POEMS. Tr. by Edgar A. Bowring,
1853.
NOVELLE. Tr. 1837.
SHORT POEMS, (c. 1798.) Tr. 1823.
SORROWS OF WERTHER: a German Story.
Tr. 1780.
STELLA: a drama. Tr. by B. Thompson, 1801.
THE TALE. Tr. by Thos. Carlyle, 1877.
THEORY OF COLOURS. Tr. by C. L. Eastlake,
1840.
TRAVELS IN ITALY. Tr. by A. J. Morrison,
1846.
WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP:
a novel (1777). Tr. by Thos. Carlyle, 1824.
WILHELM MEISTER'S TRAVELS (1821). Tr.
by Thos. Carlyle, 1827.
'The influence of Goethe is not calculable. The effect of his Faust
begins most clearly in Byron's "Manfred"'. He has influenced English
ballad and lyrical poetry, as is seen in Scott and Coleridge.
'The influence of such a man must be vast. Byron and Shelley owned
it and showed it. Carlyle, as stern a critic as ever played the pedagogue,
is unmixed in his admiration for the man Goethe, who is to him divine.
In his own country his "Werther", despite its frequent morbidness and
its longueurs, determined the feeling of every sentimentalist. Outside
that country his "Wilhelm Meister" has become almost a textbook in
æsthetic philosophy'.
GOGOL, N. V. b. 1810, d. 1852. Russian writer.
TARAS BULBA, St. John's Eve. Tr. 1887.
COSSACK TALES. Tr. [1860].
HOME LIFE IN RUSSIA. Tr. 1854.
TCHITCHIKOFF'S JOURNEYS: OR, DEAD
SOULS. Tr. J. F. Hapgood. 2 v. 1886.
THE INSPECTOR: A COMEDY. Tr. T. Hart-Davies,
1890.
GOLDONI, CARLO. b. 1707, d. 1793. Italian
dramatist.
THE ACCOMPLISHED MAID: a comic opera.
Tr. by E. Toms, 1767.
TWO COMEDIES: The Father of a Family, and
Pamela. Tr. into English with the Italian original,
1757.
GONCOURT, JULES DE. b. 1830, d. 1870. EDMOND.
b. 1822, d. 1896. French miscellaneous
writers.
RENÉE MAUPERIN. Tr. 1888.
GERMINIE LACERTEUX. Tr. 1887.
GOTTHELF, J. Pseud. [Albert Bitzius].
ULRIC THE FARM SERVANT. Tr. J. Firth,
1886.
WEALTH AND WELFARE. Tr. 1866.
GREEK ANTHOLOGIES.
COLLECTIONS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
AND FROM THE PASTORAL, ELEGIAC
AND DRAMATIC POETS OF GREECE. By R.
Bland and others, 1813.
ANTHOLOGY. TRANSLATIONS FROM THE
GREEK ANTHOLOGY, with Tales and miscellaneous
poems by Bland and Merivale, 1806.
APPLETON, W. H. Ed. GREEK POETS IN
ENGLISH VERSE, 1893.
[175 selections from the Greek poets.]
EDMONDS, E. M. Tr. GREEK LAYS, IDYLLS
AND LEGENDS. 1886.
GARNETT, LUCY M. Tr. GREEK FOLK
SONGS. 1885.
GELDART, REV. E. M. Tr. MODERN GREEK
FOLKLORE. 1883.
PALEY, Dr. F. A. Tr. FRAGMENTS OF THE
GREEK COMIC POETS. 1888.
NEAVES, LORD. Ed. GREEK ANTHOLOGY.
1874.
TOMLINSON, GRAHAM, R. SELECTIONS
FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. 1889.
WITT, C. Tr. MYTHS OF HELLAS. 1883.
'Contains translation of several not generally met with'.
GRIMM, JAKOB L. C. b. 1785, d. 1863. German
jurist and philologist; and Wilhelm C. b. 1786,
d. 1859.
GERMAN POPULAR STORIES translated (by
Edgar Taylor) from the Kinder- und Haus-Märchen,
collected by Grimm from Oral tradition. [With
Illustrations by George Cruikshank, 1823-26.]
See also under German Anthologies.
GRINGOIRE, PIERRE. b. 1478, d. 1544. French
poet and dramatist.
THE CASTELL OF LABOUR. Tr. [by P. G.]
[1506].
GROTIUS, HUGO DE (or HUIG VAN GROOT).
b. 1583, d. 1645. Dutch jurist and theologian.
THE ILLUSTRIOUS HUGO GROTIUS OF THE
LAW OF WARRE AND PEACE (De Jure Belli et
Pacis, 1625): with annotations, III. Parts, and
memorials of the author's life and death. [Translated
by Clement Barksdale], 1654.
H. GROTIUS OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE
HIGHEST POWERS ABOUT SACRED THINGS;
or THE RIGHT OF THE STATE IN THE CHURCH.
Wherein are contained many judicious discourses,
etc. Put into English by C. B. Larksdale, 1651.
TRUE RELIGION EXPLAINED AND DEFENDED
AGAINST YE ARCH ENEMIES THEREOF,
etc. 1632.
TWO DISCOURSES. (1) Of God, and his providence.
(2) Of Christ, His miracles and doctrine.
[A translation 'De Veritate Religionis Christianæ',
books 1 and 2.] With annotations and the author's
life. By (C. Barksdale) (1627). 1653.
GUARINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. b. 1538, d. 1612.
Italian poet.
IL PASTOR FIDO: or THE FAITHFULL
SHEPHEARD. [A pastoral in five acts and in
verse.] (1585.) Tr. out of Italian [by Dymock].
1602.
Suggested to Fletcher his 'Faithful Shepherdess'.
GUEVARA, ANTONIO DE. b. 1490, d. 1544. Spanish
prelate and historian.
A CHRONICLE, CONTEYNING THE LIVES
OF THE TEN EMPERORS OF ROME. Tr. ... by
E. Hellowes, 1577.
DIALL OF PRINCES ... Englished out of the
French by T. North ... also a fourth booke entituled
'The Favoured Countess'. 1557.
THE FAMILIAR EPISTLES OF A.G. Tr. by
E. Hellowes [1574].
SPANISH LETTERS: HISTORICAL, SATYRICAL
AND MORAL ... Tr. by Mr. Savage, 1697.
GOLDEN EPISTLES ... gathered ... 1577.
A LOOKING GLASS FOR THE COURT ...
drawn into French by A. Alaygre; and out of French
into English by Sir F. Briant, 1575.
THE MOUNT OF CALVARIE. Tr. 1595.
A DISPRAISE OF THE LIFE OF A COURTIER.
Tr. by Sir F. Bryan, 1548.
GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO. b. 1483, d. 1540.
Italian historian and diplomatist.
THE HISTORIE OF GUICCIARDINI (Storia
d'Italia), conteining the Warres of Italie and other
partes, etc. Reduced into English by G. Fenton, 1579.
GUIZOT, FRANÇOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME. b.
1787, d. 1874. French statesman and historian.
CORNEILLE AND HIS TIMES. Tr. 1852.
DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE. Tr. 1849.
ENGLISH REVOLUTION OF 1640. Tr. by W.
HAZLITT, 1845.
ESSAY ON THE CHARACTER AND INFLUENCE
OF WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION
OF THE U.S.A. Tr. [G. S. Hillard] 1840.
FRANCE UNDER LOUIS PHILIPPE. Tr.
1841-47.
GENERAL HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION IN
EUROPE, FROM THE FALL OF THE ROMAN
EMPIRE TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Tr.
1837.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND TO ACCESSION OF
QUEEN VICTORIA. Tr. 3 v., 1877-80.
LAST DAYS OF THE REIGN OF LOUIS
PHILIPPE. Tr. 1867.
LECTURES ON EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION.
Tr. by P. M. Beckwith, 1837.
SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIMES. Tr. 1852.
GUY OF WARWICK. Ed. Turnbull, Abbotsford
Club, 1840.
Ed. E.E.T.S., 1883-91.
Very popular among the Elizabethans, and is referred to by Beaumont
in his 'Knight of the Burning Pestle'. Quoted by Chaucer as celebrated in
his time, and fragments are preserved in Garrick's Collection of Old Plays.
It appeared in French in 1525.
HAFIZ (SHEMS-ED-DÍN MUHAMMED). b. 1300,
d. 1388, or 9. Persian poet.
A SPECIMEN OF PERSIAN POETRY: or,
ODES OF HAFIZ; with an English translation and
Paraphrase. By John Richardson, 1774.
HALLER, ALBRECHT VON. b. 1708, d. 1777.
Swiss physiologist, botanist and poet.
PHYSIOLOGY. Tr. Samuel Mihlis. 2 v. 1754.
FIRST LINES OF PHYSIOLOGY. Tr. 1779.
THE MODERATE MONARCHY; or, PRINCIPLES
OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION....
Tr. 1849.
A DISSERTATION ON THE SENSIBLE AND
IRRITABLE PARTS OF ANIMALS. Tr. 1755.
HAUFF, WILHELM. b. 1802, d. 1827. German
novelist.
THE BANISHED; a Swabian historical tale.
(Lichtenstein, 1826.) Tr. 1839.
CARAVAN, THE. Tr. [1862].
COLD HEART, THE. NOSE, THE DWARF.
THE SEVERED HAND. Tr. 1844.
CONSTANT LOVER, THE. Tr. J. Nisbet, 1893.
FALSE PRINCE. THE KING OF THE SWANS.
Tr. 1846.
JOSEPHINE, or THE BEGGAR OF THE
PONT DES ARTS. Tr. 1844.
LITTLE GLASS MAN. Tr. 1893.
LONG NOSE, THE DWARF, AND OTHER
TALES. Tr. 1881.
LICHTENSTEIN: or, THE SWABIAN LEAGUE.
Tr. F. Woodley and W. Lander, 1846.
STORY OF A MANIKIN. Tr. 1845.
STORKS, THE. FALSE PRINCE. Tr. 1875.
SELECT POPULAR TALES. Tr. 1845.
MÄRCHEN. Tr. 1876.
TALES OF WONDER, or THE INN IN THE
BLACK FOREST. 1861.
TALES. THE CARAVAN. THE SHEIK OF
ALEXANDRIA. THE INN OF THE SPESSART.
Tr. 1886.
THE WINE-GHOSTS OF BREMEN. (Phantasien
im Bremer Rathskeller, 1827.) Tr. 1889.
HAVELOCK. Cir. 1280.
Ed. Prof. W. W. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1868.
HAVELOCK THE DANE. The hero of an Anglo-Danish
legend, which was 'rhymed by a Norman
into French not many years after the first crusade,
and afterwards retaken for the English by a native
poet'. 'The earliest shape' says Morley, 'in which
we have the story is that of a French romance, which
was abridged by Geoffroi Gaimar'.
The French version and an English translation,
found in the Bodleian, was published by Madden in
1828.
HEBREW TALES.
HURWITZ, HYMAN. HEBREW TALES, selected
and Translated from the writings of the
Ancient Hebrew Sages: to which is prefixed an
Essay on the uninspired Literature of the Hebrews,
1826.
HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH. b. 1770,
d. 1831. German philosopher.
HEGEL'S ÆSTHETICS. A critical exposition
by J. S. Keaney, 1885.
LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.
3 v. Tr. E. S. Haldane, 1892-96.
LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.
Tr. by J. Sibree, 1852.
LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION,
TOGETHER WITH A WORK ON THE
PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD....
Tr. E. B. Speirs and J. B. Sanderson. 3 v. 1895.
LOGIC OF HEGEL. (1812.) Tr. by W. Wallace,
etc., 1874.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART ... by Hegel and
C. L. Michelet. Tr. by W. Hastie, 1886. [Summary
of] HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT. By
T. C. Sanders, 1855.
HEINE, HEINRICH. b. 1800, d. 1856. German
poet and author.
THE POEMS OF HEINE. Complete. Tr. in the
original metres, with a sketch of Heine's life. By
E. A. Bowring, 1858.
[Selections.] FOURTEEN POEMS ... from
Heine. Tr. 1852.
THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL. Tr. S. L. Fleishman.
1882.
TRAVEL PICTURES. Tr. by F. Storr, 1846.
HELIODORUS. c. 3rd century A.D.
THEAGENES AND CHARICLEA (Æthiopica)
written in Greeke by Heliodorus, no lesse wittie than
pleasant. Englished by T. Underdoune, 1587.
[First printed in Greek at Basle, 1534.]
HENRY OF HUNTINGDON. d. 1155. English historian.
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH (Historia Anglorum
B.C. 55 A.D. 1154). Tr. by T. Forester, 1853.
HERACLITUS EPHESII. B.C. 500. Greek philosopher.
THE RIDDLES OF HERACLITUS AND
DEMOCRITUS. Tr. 1598.
HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED. b. 1744, d. 1803.
German writer.
THE CID. Tr. 1828.
ORIENTAL DIALOGUES. Tr. 1801.
OUTLINES OF A PHILOSOPHY OF THE
HISTORY OF MEN. Tr. by T. Churchill, 1800.
SPIRIT OF HEBREW POETRY. Tr. by J.
Marsh, 1833.
HERODOTUS. b. 484, d. 424 B.C. Greek historian.
THE FAMOUS HYSTORY OF HERODOTUS.
Conteyning the Discourse of Dyvers Countreys, etc.
[Tr. by B. R. i.e. Barnaby Rich.] 1584.
HERTZ, HENRIK. b. 1798, d. 1870. Danish poet
and dramatist.
KING RENE'S DAUGHTER. Tr. [Sir] Theodore
Martin, 1850.
KING RENE'S DAUGHTER. A Lyric Drama.
Tr. J. F. Chapman, 1845.
HESIOD. b. 735 B.C. Greek didactic poet.
THE GEORGICS OF HESIOD. Tr. by George
Chapman, 1618.
WORKS AND DAYS. Tr. Geo. Chapman, 1618.
WORKS OF HESIOD. Tr. (in verse) by Mr.
Cooke, 1728.
Hesiod was imitated by Virgil (Georgics). Served as model for Tusser's
'Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry', and Dyer and Green.
HEYSE, PAUL J. L. b. 1830. German poet
and novelist.
BARBAROSSA AND OTHER TALES. Tr.
L. C. S., 1867.
CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. [1873.] Tr. 1882.
THE DEAD LAKE. Tr. M. Wilson, 1867.
INCURABLE. Tr. Mrs. H. W. Eve, 1890.
THE LONELY ONES. Tr. 1870.
LA MARCHESA, etc. Tr. J. Philips, 1887.
ROMANCE OF A CANONESS. Tr. J. M. Percival,
1888.
TWO PRISONERS. Tr. 1893.
HIGDEN, RANULF. d. 1364. English monk.
POLYCHRONICON. From the creation to 1352,
with the English. Tr. of John Trevisa, 1387 ...
v. 1-2 Ed. by C. Babington; v. 3-9 Ed. by J. R.
Lumby. Rolls Ser. 9 v. 1865-86.
[Printed by Caxton in 1482, with Caxton's continuation to 1460.]
HOFFMANN, ERNEST THEODOR WILHELM.
b. 1776, d. 1822. German story-teller.
THE DEVIL'S ELIXIR. Tr. 1824.
THE ELEMENTARY SPIRIT [Tr. from 'Der
Elementargeist', by J. Oxenford], 1844.
THE GOLDEN POT. Tr. by T. Carlyle, 1827.
MASTER FLEA. Tr. by G. [1880.]
THE SANDMAN. Tr. by J. Oxenford, 1844.
WEIRD TALES. Tr. by J. T. Bealby, 2v. 1885.
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 Sr. 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.
HISTORY OF A CRIME. Tr. T. H. Joyce
and A. Locker. 4 v. 1877-78.
THE HUNCH-BACK OF NOTRE-DAME. (1831.)
Tr. with a sketch of the life and writings of the author
by F. Schoberl, 1831.
JARGAL. Tr. C. E. Wilbour, 1866.
KING'S FOOL, THE. Tr. [H. T. Haley] 1842.
LAST DAY OF A CONDEMNED. Tr. G. W. M.
Reynolds, 1840.
LAUGHING MAN. Tr. 1889.
LES ORIENTALES; or, 'EASTERN LYRICS'.
Fr. and Eng. versions, by J. N. Fazakerley, 1879.
LES MISÉRABLES. (1862.) Tr. by Sir F. C. L.
Wroxall, 1862.
LUCRETIA BORGIA. Tr. W. T. Haley, 1842.
NAPOLEON THE LITTLE. Tr. 1852.
NINETY-THREE. (1872.) Tr. F. L. Benedict
and J. H. Friswell. 3 v. 1874.
NOBLE RIVAL; or, THE PRINCE OF THE
CONGO. [A Tr. of the Bug-Jargal]. [1845.]
NOTRE DAME DE PARIS. (1831.) Tr. W.
Hazlitt. 3 v. 1833.
MEMOIRS OF V. H. Tr. J. W. Harding, 1899.
POLITICAL POEMS. Tr. E[dwin] A[rnold]. 1868.
RUY BLAS; a dramatic drama. Adapted by
E. O'Rouke, 1850.
SELECTIONS, CHIEFLY LYRICAL, FROM
THE POETICAL WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO. Tr.
by various authors, now first collected by H. L.
Williams. 1846.
SLAVE-KING, THE, from the Bug-Jargal of
V. H. Tr. 1833.
SONGS OF TWILIGHT. Tr. G. W. M. Reynolds.
1836.
THINGS SEEN. Tr. 2 v. 1887.
TOILERS OF THE SEA. (1866). Tr. W. M.
Thomas. 3 v. 1866.
UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH....
(1826-34.) Tr. Sir G. Campbell. [1886.]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Tr. 1864. [An
Essay on his works.]
HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH A., BARON
VON. b. 1769, d. 1859. German scientist and
traveller.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE CINCHONA FORESTS
OF SOUTH AMERICA. Tr. 1821.
COSMOS (1845-8). Tr. by Prichard, 1845-8
[2 vols. only. Discontinued].
COSMOS. Tr. by Mrs. Sabine, 1845-6. 4 vols.
OBSERVATIONS AND TRIGONOMETRICAL
AND BAROMETRICAL MEASUREMENTS. Tr.
by J. Black, 1811-12.
POLITICAL ESSAY ON THE KINGDOM OF
NEW SPAIN ... with physical sections and maps.
Tr. by J. Black, 1811.
HUNGARIAN ANTHOLOGIES. See Austrian.
HUON OF BORDEAUX.
Here begynneth the Boke of duke Huon of Bordeuxe,
and of them that issuyd fro hym. (Tr. by
Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners.) 1534.
HUON OF BURDEUX. Done into English by
Lord Berners. Ed. S. L. Lee, pts. I-III. E.E.T.S.
1882-87.
HUSS (or HUS), JOHN. b. 1369, d. 1415. Celebrated
reformer of the Church.
A SEASONABLE VINDICATION OF THE
SUPREAM AUTHORITY AND JURISDICTION
OF CHRISTIAN KINGS, LORDS, PARLIAMENTS
AS WELL AS OVER POSSESSIONS, ETC. Transcribed
out of the printed works of John Huss and
Mr. John Fox his Acts and Monuments, by W.
Prynne, 1660.
IBSEN, HENRIK. b. 1828, d. 1907. Norwegian
poet and dramatist.
BRAND (1866). Tr. by Wm. Wilson, 1891.
A DOLL'S HOUSE (Et Dukkehjem, 1879). Tr.
by Wm. Archer, 1879.
[Also as 'Nora.' Tr. by T. Weber, 1880.]
THE EMPEROR AND THE GALILEAN. (1873.)
A drama in two parts. Tr. by C. Ray, 1876.
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (En Folkefiende,
1882). Tr. by Mrs. E. Marx-Aveling, 1888.
GHOSTS (Gengangere, 1881). Tr. 1888.
HEDDA GABLER. Tr. by Edmund Gosse, 1891.
JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN. Tr. by Wm.
Archer, 1897.
THE LADY FROM THE SEA (1888). Tr. by
Mrs. E. Marx-Aveling, 1889.
THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH (De Unges Forbund,
1869). Tr. by Wm. Archer, 1890.
LITTLE EYOLF. Tr. W. Archer, 1894.
LOVE'S COMEDY. Tr. C. H. Herford, 1900.
THE MASTER BUILDER (Bygmester Solness,
1892). Tr. by Edmund Gosse and Wm. Archer, 1893.
NORA. Tr. T. Weber, 1880.
PEER GYNT. Trs. by Wm. and Charles Archer,
1892.
THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY (Samfundets Stötter).
Tr. 1888.
ROSMERSHOLM. Tr. L. N. Parker, 1889.
WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN. Tr. W. Archer,
1900.
THE WILD DUCK (Vildanen, 1884). Tr. by
Mrs. F. Archer [1890].
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE NORSE (from
Ibsen and Dass), by A.B.S.S. (member of the British
Scandinavian Soc.). [1879.]
INDIAN: HINDU ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS,
Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales and Traditional
Literature.
AMARYAN [= F. F. Arbuthnot]. Tr. EARLY
IDEAS: a group of Hindu Stories, 1881.
[Short selections from Bidpai, Pancha-Tantra, Hitopadesa, Kathasarit
sagara, etc.]
ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN. Tr. INDIAN POETRY.
1881.
[Contains Indian 'Song of Songs' [Gita-Govinda], two books of the
Mahabahrata, and other Oriental poems.]
BURTON, SIR R. F. Tr. VIKRAM AND THE
VAMPIRE: TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY. 1870.
DAY, REV. L. B. Tr. FOLK TALES OF BENGAL,
1883.
DUTT, ROMESH C. Tr. LAYS OF ANCIENT
INDIA, 1894.
EASTWICK, E. B. Tr. Baital Pachisi. Text and
Tr. 1855.
FORBES, D. Tr. BAGH-O-BAHAR. ['Tales
of the Four Darweshes']. 1851.
FRERE, M. Tr. OLD DECCAN DAYS: OR,
OLD FAIRY LEGENDS, 1868.
GOVER, C. E. Tr. FOLK-SONGS OF
SOUTHERN INDIA, 1872.
GRAY, JAMES. Tr. ANCIENT PROVERBS
AND MAXIMS FROM BURMA. (Oriental Ser.)
1887.
GRIFFITH, RALPH T. H. Tr. THE HYMNS
OF THE RIG-VEDA, 4 v., 1889-92.
JACOBS, JOS. Ed. INDIAN FAIRY TALES,
1892.
[Contains useful analytic and comparative notes.]
KINGSCOTE, MRS. H. and N. SASTRI. Tr.
TALES OF THE SUN, OR FOLK-LORE OF
SOUTHERN INDIA, 1890.
KNOWLES, J. H. Tr. FOLK-TALES OF
BENGAL, 1868.
[Fairy tales of South India.]
KNOWLES, J. H. Tr. FOLK-TALES OF
KASHMIR, 1888.
MATHEWS, CORNELIUS. Tr. INDIAN FAIRY
BOOK. From the original legends, 1869.
MÜLLER, F. MAX. Ed. Tr. HITOPADESA.
1864-65.
NATÊSA SÂSTRÎ, P. Tr. FOLKLORE OF
SOUTHERN INDIA, 3 pts. in 1 v. [1890].
[Trs. of twenty-four Tamil Popular Tales.]
RAJU RAMASWANI. Tr. INDIAN FABLES.
1888.
RAVERTY, H. Tr. THE POETRY OF THE
AFGHANS. 1863.
SCHIEFNER, A. Tibetan Tales derived from
Indian sources. Tr. W. R. S. Ralston, 1882.
STOKES, MAIVE. Tr. INDIAN FAIRY TALES,
1869.
SWYNNERTON, CHAS. Tr. INDIAN NIGHT'S
ENTERTAINMENTS, 1893.
[A collection of eighty-five folk-tales from the Upper Indus.]
TEMPLE, R. C. LEGENDS OF THE PUNJAB,
2 v., 1884-5.
WILLIAMS, SIR MONIER. Tr. INDIAN WISDOM,
1875.
[Forms a compendious and very interesting summary of Sansk. literature.]
WILSON, H. H. Tr. SELECT SPECIMENS OF
THE THEATRE OF THE HINDUS, 2 v., 1835.
ISAEUS. 5th century B.C. Greek orator.
The Speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the
Laws of Succession to Property at Athens....
Tr. Sir W. Jones, 1779.
ISLA, J. FATHER. b. 1703, d. 1781. Spanish
author.
HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS PREACHER,
FRIAR GERUND DE CAMPANZAS. [1758.]
Tr. by [Thomas Nugent], 1772.
'The best picture of Spanish manners of the 18th century'.
ISOCRATES. b. B.C. 436, d. 338. Greek orator.
The Orations (21) and Epistles (9) of Isocrates.
Tr. by Jos. Dinsdale. Revised by Rev. Mr. Young.
1752.
THE DOCTRINE OF PRINCES.... Tr. Syr
Thomas Eliot. [1534.]
A PERFITE LOOKING GLASSE FOR ALL
ESTATES AS CONTAINED IN THREE ORATIONS
OF MORALL INSTRUCTIONS. Tr. [Tho. Forrest]
1580.
THE GOOD ADMONISHION OF THE SAGE
ISOCRATES TO YOUNG DEMONICUS. Tr. R.
Nuttall, 1585.
ARCHIDAMUS, or THE COUNCELL OF
WARRE, being 2,000 years old. Tr. T. Barnes,
1624.
ISUMBRAS. See Sir Isumbras.
ITALIAN ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.
CRANE, THOS. FREDERICK. ITALIAN
POPULAR TALES, 1885.
[An admirable collection, with bibliography.]
BUSK, R. H. Tr. THE FOLK SONGS OF
ITALY, with contributions by Comparetti, 1886.
PAINTER, WILLIAM. 1540-94. PALACE OF
PLEASURE. Tr. 1566-67. Stories translated from
Boccaccio, Bandello, Ser Giovanni, Straparola, Guevara,
Marguerite of Navarre, etc. The Elizabethan dramatists
quarried many of their plots here, e.g. 'Romeo
and Juliet', 'All's Well that Ends Well', and
'Measure for Measure', were founded on these
stories.
ROSCOE, THOS. ITALIAN NOVELISTS, 4 v.,
1825. ITALIAN TALES, 1824.
Selections from the Novelle Antiche, Boccaccio, Sacchetti, Ser Giovanni
Fiorentino, Massuccio, Sabadino degli Arienti, Sozzini, Agnolo Firenzuola,
Gentile Sermini, Giovanni Brevio, Girolamo Parabosco, Giovambattista
Giraldi Cinthio, Anton-Francesco, Grazzini, Ortensio Lands, Straparola,
Bandello, Sansovino, Anton-Francesco Doni, Erizzo, Ascanio Mori da Ceno,
Malespini, Maiolino, Bisaccioni, Colombo, Bargagli, Bottari, Capacelli,
Soave, Altanesi, Magalotti, Lodoli, Maria Manni, Girolamo, Padovani
Luigi Sanvitale, Carlo Gozzi, Luigi Bramieri, Robustiano Gironi.
STRETTELL, ALMA. Tr. SPANISH AND
ITALIAN FOLK SONGS. 1837.
JAPANESE ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.
Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales and Traditional
Literature.
GRIFFIS, WM. E. Tr. JAPANESE FAIRY
WORLD. Stories from the Wonder-lore of Japan,
1887.
CHAMBERLAIN, B. H. THE CLASSICAL
POETRY OF THE JAPANESE, 1880.
DICKENS, F. V. Tr. THE OLD-BAMBOO-HEWER'S
STORY, 1888.
[The earliest of the Japanese romances, written in the 10th cent.]
DICKENS, F. V. HYAK NIN FS'SHIM, 1866.
[Selections of Japanese odes, with trs. and notes.]
JAPANESE FAIRY TALES. Tr. 1888.
MITFORD, ALGERNON B. F. Tr. TALES OF
OLD JAPAN, 1871.
JEAN D'ARRAS, or JEHAN. 1360. French novelist.
MELUSINE, 1382-1394. Tr. A. K. Donald,
E.E.T.S., 1895.
English version in prose is of cir. 1500.
JOINVILLE, JEAN DE. b. 1224, d. 1319. French
chronicler.
MEMOIRS OF JOHN LORD DE JOINVILLE
... containing a history of part of the life of
Louis IX.... Tr. F. Johnes. 2 v. 1807.
JOKAI, MAURUS. b. 1825, d. 1904. Hungarian
novelist and dramatist.
BLACK DIAMONDS (1870). Tr. 1896.
DEBTS OF HONOUR. Tr. by A. B. Yollond,
1900.
DOCTOR DUMANY'S WIFE. Tr. 1891.
EYES LIKE THE SEA. (1890.) Tr. R. N. Bain,
1893.
GREEN BOOK; FREEDOM UNDER THE
SNOW. Tr. 1897.
HALIL THE PEDLAR. A fehér rozsa (1854).
Tr. 1901.
HUNGARIAN NABOB (1856). Tr. 1898.
LION OF JANINA (1852). 1897.
MIDST THE WILD CARPATHIANS. Tr. 1894.
NAMELESS CASTLE. Tr. 1898.
PRETTY MICHAL (1877). Tr. 1892.
TIMAR'S TWO WORLDS. Tr. 1880.
TOWER OF DAGO. Tr. 1899.
JOLYOT DE CRÉBILLON (CLAUDE PROSPER).
See Crébillon.
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHIE. Alliterative Romance
of, or Holy Grail: Ed. Prf. W. W. Skeat,
1871.
See also under Holy Grail.
JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS. b. 37, d. 95. Jewish historian.
THE FAMOUS ... WORKES OF JOSEPHUS.
Tr. by T. Lodge, 1602.
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS.
Tr. by Thos. Lodge, 1602.
JOUBERT, JOSEPH. b. 1754, d. 1824. French
pensée writer.
PENSÉES OF JOUBERT. Tr. H. Attwell, 1877.
(Edited by Châteaubriand.)
JULIAN. b. 331, d. 363. Roman Emperor.
SELECT WORKS OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN
AND SOME PIECES OF THE SOPHIST LIBANIUS.
2 v. Tr. 1784.
TWO ORATIONS OF THE EMPEROR J.,
ONE OF THE SUN, AND THE OTHER OF THE
MOTHER OF THE GODS. Tr. [T. Taylor] 1793.
THE ARGUMENTS OF THE EMPEROR
JULIAN AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. Tr. T.
Taylor, 1809.
JUSTINIAN. b. 483, d. 565. Emperor of the east.
JUSTINIAN. Englished by Sir Henry Holcroft,
1653.
This work is based upon that of Gaius, and is familiar to lawyers under
the name of Justinian's Institutes.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS). b.
55 A.D. Latin satiric poet.
FIFTH SATYR. Tr. by Geo. Chapman, 1629.
FIRST SIX SATYRS. Tr. by R. Stapylton, 1644.
A PARAPHRASTICAL TRANSCRIPT OF JUVENAL'S
TENTH SATYRE, TOGETHER WITH
THE TRAGICAL NARRATION OF VIRGINIA'S
DEATH, interserted by W. B. (arkstead), 1617.
THE SATIRES OF D. J. JUVENALIS....
Tr. ... by Mr. Dryden, 1693.
SIXTEEN SATYRS, OR A SURVEY OF THE
MANNERS AND ACTIONS OF MANKIND. Tr.
in verse by Sir R. Stapylton, 1647.
TWO FIRST SATYRS OF JUVENAL. Tr. by
John Biddle, 1634.
Influenced Johnson in 'London' and 'Vanity of Human Wishes.' It
is Juvenal and Horace who have served as models for Dryden and Pope
for Hall and Butler, and for Byron in his 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers'.
Churchill's Satires are Juvenal's in spirit throughout.
KÁLIDÁSA. B.C. 50 (?). Hindu poet. 'The Shakespeare
of India'.
BIRTH OF THE WAR GOD. A poem by K.
Tr. by R. T. H. Griffith, 1853.
KÁLIDÁSA'S SAKUNTALA. Translated by Sir
Wm. Jones, 1789.
KÁLIDÁSA'S MEGHADUTA. THE MEGHADUTA:
OR, CLOUD MESSENGER.... Tr. by
H. H. Wilson, 1813.
KÁLIDÁSA'S NALODAYA: OR, HISTORY OF
KING NALA. Tr. by W. Yates, 1844.
SAKOONATALÂ. Tr. by Monier Williams, 1854.
VIKRAMORVASI. Tr. by E. B. Cowell, 1850.
In this version the metrical portions of the original play were for the
first time rendered into English verse.
KAMPE, J. H. German writer.
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON. Tr. H. B. Paull,
1888.
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Tr. 1799-1800.
[For children.]
ELEMENTARY DIALOGUES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT
OF CHILDREN. Tr. Mr. Seymour.
1792.
THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE. Tr. 4 v.,
1788.
ROBINSON THE YOUNGER; or, THE NEW
CRUSOE. Tr. [R. Hick] 1855.
CORTES: or, THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
Tr. 1800.
LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON
CRUSOE. Tr. [1815?].
KANT, IMMANUEL. b. 1724, d. 1804. German
philosopher. One of the profoundest meta-physicians
that have ever lived. Founder of
the Critical (popularly known as the Transcendental)
school of philosophy.
CRITICK; an Investigation of Pure Reason
(1788). Tr. by Haywood, with notes, 1838.
ELEMENTS OF THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY,
containing a concise account of its origin and tendency;
a view of the Works by its Founder, and a
Glossary, with three Essays by J. C. Adelung. Tr.
by A. F. M. Willich, 1798.
ENQUIRY INTO THE PROOFS FOR THE
EXISTENCE OF GOD, AND INTO THE THEODICY.
Tr. by J. Richardson, 1819.
ESSAYS AND TREATISES ON MORAL, POLITICAL,
AND VARIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.
From the German. Tr. by William
Richardson, 1798-9.
LOGIC. Tr. by J. Richardson, 1819.
METAPHYSICS OF MORALS. Tr. 1799.
PROLEGOMENA TO EVERY FUTURE METAPHYSIC.
Tr. by J. Richardson, 1819.
RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDARY OF
PURE REASON. Tr. by Semple, 1838.
The works of K. have had a very great effect upon English philosophy
and thought. For an excellent popular notice of the influence exerted
by Kant's philosophy the reader is referred to De Quincey's chapter on
German literature in the volume of his works entitled 'Life and Manners'.
Many interesting observations will also be found in Madame de Staël's
'Germany', Part III, Chap. VI.
KEMPIS, THOMAS À. b. 1379, d. 1471. German
ascetic writer.
A DEVOUT AND GOSTELY TREATISE OF
YA IMYTACION AND FOLOWYNGE OF CRYST
(1415-24), compiled in Latin by J. Jerson. Tr. by
Wyllyam Atkynson, 1502.
KIELLAND, A. L. b. 1849. Norwegian Author.
GARMAN AND WORSE. Tr. W. W. Kettlewell,
1884.
SKIPPER WORSE. Tr. Earl of Ducie, 1885.
NORSE TALES AND SKETCHES. Tr. R. L.
Cassie, 1896.
TALES OF TWO COUNTRIES. Tr. W. Archer,
1891.
KING HORN. C. 1230-40.
Ed. Bannatyne Club, 1845.
Ed. Lumby, J. R., and G. H. McKnight, E.E.T.S.
xiv. 1866.
King Horn belongs to the Anglo-Danish cycle of
romance, with also Guy of Warwick, and Colbrond
the Dane.
KISFALUDY, SANDOR (ALEXANDER). b. 1772,
d. 1844. Hungarian dramatist.
ILKA, THE CAPTIVE MAIDEN AND OTHER
STORIES. [Adapted from the Hungarian of K. K.
and others, by S. G.] 1892.
KLOPSTOCK, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB. b. 1724,
d. 1803. German poet.
THE MESSIAH, A POEM. xiv. books. Tr.
into English prose by Mrs. and Mr. J. Collyer, 1763.
KNIGHT OF THE SWANNE, HISTORY OF HELYAS.
Tr. 1512.
From French prose romance, printed 1504. Legend very old. Chevelere
Assigne, an alliterative poem from a French romance of 30,000 verses.
See also p. 37.
KORAN, or ALKORAN.
The sacred book of the Mohammedans, written about A.D. 610 by Mohammed,
and published about 634 by his successor, Abu Bekr. Its contents
are believed by Mohammedans to have been communicated to
Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel during a period of twenty-three years.
The book was first translated by George Sale in 1734.
A LYTELL TREATYSE OF THE TURKES
LAWES CALLED ALCORAN; AND ALSO IT
SPEAKS OF MAHOMET THE NYGROMANCER.
Pr. W. de Worde. n.d.
ALCORAN OF MAHOMET. (By Alex. Ross.)
1642.
KÖRNER, KARL T. b. 1791, d. 1813. German poet.
HARP, THE. Tr. 1826.
HEDWIG; or, LOVE AND GRATITUDE.
A drama. Tr. Mrs. B. Davenay, 1878.
LIFE AND SELECTIONS FROM HIS POEMS,
TALES AND DRAMAS. Tr. Richardson, 1827.
LYRE AND THE SWORD. (1814.) Tr. 1834.
ROSAMOND. (1812.) Tr. 1830.
SONGS AND BALLADS. Tr. of Uhland, Körner,
Bürger, etc. Tr. 1838.
WOLDEMAR. Tr. 1805.
KRILOFF, I. A. b. 1768, d. 1844. Russian poet.
KRILOFF AND HIS FABLES. Tr. W. R. S.
Ralston, 1869.
LA BRUYÈRE, JEAN DE. b. 1639, d. 1696. French
writer and moralist.
THE MORAL CHARACTERS OF THEOPHRASTUS
(1684). Tr. 1713.
'The Greek writer [Theophrastus] ... has been incomparably surpassed
by his imitator'.—Hallam.
LA CALPRENÈDE. See COSTES.
LA FAYETTE, DE. Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves
Gilbert Motier. b. 1634, d. 1693. French
authoress.
PRINCESS OF CLEVES.... Written ... by
the greatest wits of France, 1688.
PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER, 1666.
ZAYDE [1670]; a Spanish History. Written by
Monsieur Segrais [and the Countess de La Fayette],
1678.
Her 'Zayde' and the 'Princess of Cleves' were the first French works
of fiction that truly represented the manners of the upper classes. Her
style was very closely followed by Richardson in 'Clarissa Harlowe'.
LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. b. 1621, d. 1695. French
fabulist and writer of 'Contes'.
FABLES AND TALES IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH,
now first translated, with the Author's life
(1668). 1734.
'It was primarily along the Greek channel that the fables were derived,
if not all the matter, at least the inspiration; for the fables of La Fontaine,
and the English fables of Gay, together with all the collection
which have been printed, were all taken from the Greek'.
Dryden, Gay and Prior were all greatly influenced by the works of La
Fontaine.
LAI LE FREINE. From the French of Marie de
France. Cir. 14th century.
Ed. Weber, Metrical Romances, 1810.
LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE DE. b. 1792, d. 1869.
French poet, orator and historian.
HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
OF 1848. Tr. 1846.
HISTORY OF THE GIRONDISTS, OR PERSONAL
MEMOIRS OF THE PATRIOTS OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION (1840). Tr. by H. T.
Ryde, 1847.
HISTORY OF THE RESTORATION OF MONARCHY
IN FRANCE. Tr. by Captn. Rafter,
1851-3.
POETICAL MEDITATIONS AND RELIGIOUS
HARMONIES (1820). Tr. by the Rev. W. Pulling,
with a biographical sketch, 1849.
RAPHAEL, OR PAGES OF THE BOOK OF
LIFE AT TWENTY. Tr. 1849.
LAMENNAIS, FÉLICITÉ ROBERT DE. b. 1782,
d. 1854. French theologian and journalist.
ESSAY ON INDIFFERENCE TO RELIGION.
4 v. (1817-23.) Tr. Lord Stanley of A., 1895.
WORDS OF A BELIEVER. Tr. 1834.
MODERN SLAVERY. Tr. W. J. Linton, 1840.
THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE. Tr. J. H. Lorymer,
1838.
THE LAMENT OF DEOR, or, The Minstrel's Consolation.
Ed. Tr. from Cook and Tinker's Select
Tr. from English Poetry, 1902.
LANCELOT OF THE LAIK. Cir. 1500. Ed. Prf.
W. W. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1865.
Ed. Stevenson, Maitland Club, 1839.
See also Weston, J. L. Legend of Sir Lancelot
du Lac. Studies upon its Origin, Development
and Position in the Arthurian Cycle, 1901.
LAND OF COCKAIGNE [13th century].
Ed. F. J. Furnival—in his Early English Poems
and Lives of Saints, 1862.
A satire on the corruptions of the Condt, painting a 'Land of the
Kitchen', a fool's paradise.
LANGLAND, WILLIAM (OR LANGLEY).
BOOK OF PIERS PLOWMAN, 1362-1377. Ed.
Skeat, in its three forms. E.E.T.S. 1867-69-73.
RICHARD THE REDELESS. Ed. Skeat.
E.E.T.S., 1873.
'The Vision of Piers Plowman' is a satire directed against the vices of
the Clergy and other professions.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS, DUC DE. b.
1613, d. 1680. French maxim-writer.
MORAL MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS (1665)
... now made English, 1694.
LASCO DE LA VEGA, See Garcilasco de la Vega,
Surnamed 'The Inca'.
LA TOUR LANDRY. Ab. 1440. Ed. T. Wright. 1868.
LAWS OF INE (King of West Saxons, 688-726).
THE EARLIEST LAWS OF WESSEX. Reissued
by King Alfred. Ed., B. Thorpe, 'Ancient
Laws and Institutes of England', text and tr., 1840.
LAYAMON. 1200. English priest.
LAYAMON'S BRUT, OR CHRONICLE OF
BRITAIN: a poetical semi-Saxon paraphrase of
the Brut of Wace. [With a tr.] Ed. by F. Madden,
3 v., 1847.
This work is important as the principal literary monument in the English
language of that period.
The poet 'thrummed' three books into one in his work, namely, Wace's
'Geste des Bretons' (1155), his chief source, Baeda's work in his own Latin,
and Alfred's translation of the same. The author has the distinction of
being the first to commemorate King Arthur in English verse.
LAZARILLO DE TORMES. [1554.]
THE PLEASAUNT HISTORIE OF LAZARILLO
DE TORMES, A SPANIARDE ... draune out of
Spanish by David Rowland ... 1586.
'This little work may be thought by some of a low and trifling nature:
but it is the first of a race of comic romances. For wit, spirit and inexhaustible
resources ... there is nothing like the Spanish rogue'.
'The first novela picaresca, or rogue story'. The appearance of this
work (1554) marks the date at which such stories first took shape as a distinct
branch of the novel, to be known as the 'picaroon' or 'picaresque'.
From that time, for nearly a century, the 'Novelas de Picaros' are a chief
product of Spanish writing. Chief among the progeny of 'Lazarillo' are
'Guzman de Alfarache' (1599), a sequel to 'L' itself by Luma (1620),
and 'The Life of Buscon' by Quevedo (1626). All these were quickly
translated into English. In England the effect of the picaresque novel
first appears in the 'Jack Wilton' of Nash. In France the type passed
through the hands of Scarron and Le Sage, whose 'Diable Boiteau' and
'Gil Blas' were destined to eclipse the fame of the Spanish originals. From
the examples of France this species broke out in England with the 'Moll
Flanders' and 'Colonel Jack' of Defoe, the 'Joseph Andrews' of Fielding,
the 'Roderick Random' and 'Peregrine Pickle' of Smollett. In the nineteenth
century it finds its congeners in the 'Three Musketeers' of Dumas
and in the works of several minor English novelists. 'Mr. Jingle does
not essentially differ from this type'.
LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE. See Fontenelle.
LE FREINE. See Lai Le Freine.
LEIBNITZ, VON, GOTTFRIED WILHELM, Baron.
b. 1646, d. 1716. German philosopher and
mathematician.
A COLLECTION OF PAPERS WHICH PASSED
BETWEEN ... LEIBNITZ AND DR. CLARKE
... RELATING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION, 1717.
A SYSTEM OF THEOLOGY (1686).... Tr.
with an introduction and notes by C. W. Russell.
'We may trace the thoughts of Pope's "Essay on Man" back through
Bolingbroke's prose to the philosophic writings of Leibnitz'.
Hallam says, 'No one can read without perceiving that of all the early
geologists Leibnitz came nearest to the theories which are most received
in the English school of this day'.
LEOPARDI, GIACOMO. b. 1798, d. 1837. Italian
poet and essayist.
ESSAYS AND DIALOGUES.... Tr. by C.
Edwardes, 1882.
POEMS. Tr. by Townsend, 1888.
LERMONTOV (or LERMONTOFF), MIKHAIL
YUREVITCH. b. 1814, d. 1841. Russian poet.
THE CIRCASSIAN BOY. Tr. [into English
verse] by S. S. Comart, 1875.
THE DEMON, a poem. Tr. by A. C. Stephen,
1875.
A HERO OF OUR TIME. (1839.) Tr. 1854.
LE SAGE, ALAIN RENÉ. b. 1668, d. 1747. French
romancer and essayist.
THE BATCHELOR OF SALAMANCA (1736-8).
Tr. by Mr. Lockman, 1737.
THE DEVIL UPON TWO STICKS (Asmodeus).
Tr. 1708.
HISTORY OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE
(1715-35). Tr. 1732-7.
Defoe, Fielding and Smollett were all influenced by Le Sage, whom they
imitated.
LESSING, GOTTHOLD E. b. 1729, d. 1781. German
writer. Regarded as the father of the new era
of German Literature.
THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF G. E. LESSING.
Tr. ... Edited by E. Bell, 1878.
FABLES FROM THE GERMAN. Tr. by J.
Richardson, 1773.
EMILIA GALOTTÉ.... Tr. by B. Thompson,
1801.
[1] LAOCOON; AN ESSAY, OR THE LIMITS OF
POETRY AND PAINTING. Tr. by Wm. Ross,
1836.
NATHAN THE WISE; a Dramatic Poem, 1779.
Tr. by Wm. Taylor, 1791.
SCHOOL OF HONOUR. Tr. 1799.
THREE COMEDIES. Tr. by J. J. Holroyd, 1838.
[1] 'Despite its errors and shortcomings, this famous treatise on the "Boundaries
of Poetry and Painting", a work of criticism in the philosophy of
the beautiful, has perhaps influenced more minds than any other work on
æsthetics except those of Aristotle and Longinus'. To countless others
besides Macaulay it has been their first illumination of the everlasting
principles of beauty.
LEWIS OF GRENADA, F. Spanish writer.
OF PRAYER AND MEDITATION. Tr. by
[Richard Hopkins] 1582.
THE SINNER'S GUYDE. Digested into English
by Francis Meres, 1598.
GRANADA'S DEVOTIONS. Englished by F.
Meres, 1598.
A MOST FRAGRANT FLOWER; or, devoute
Exposition of the Lord's Prayer. Tr. by J. G., 1598.
A MEMORIAL OF A CHRISTIAN LIFE. Tr.
[by Richard Hopkins], 1599.
A SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE CONTAINING A
RULE OF LIVE WEL, WITH DIVERS PRAIERS
AND MEDITATIONS. Tr. [by Rich. Gibbons]
1599.
LIBANIUS SOPHISTA. b. 314, d. 400. See Julian.
LIE, JONAS L. b. 1833. Norwegian poet and
novelist.
BARQUE FUTURE. Tr. 1876.
COMMODORE'S DAUGHTER. Tr. 1892.
LITTLE GREY, THE PONY OF NORDFJORD.
Tr. Arbuthnott, 1873.
NIOBE. Tr. 1890.
NORSE LOVE STORY. Tr. 1876.
PILOT AND HIS WIFE. (1874.) Tr. 1876.
VISIONARY, THE. Tr. J. Muir, 1894.
WEIRD TALES FROM THE NORTHERN SEAS.
Tr. 1893.
LINNÆUS, (or LINNÉ) CARL. b. 1707, d. 1778.
Swedish botanist.
ANIMAL KINGDOM. Translated, with Additions,
by R. Kerr, 1792.
DISSERTATION ON THE SEXES OF PLANTS.
Tr. by Sir J. E. Smith, 1786.
FUNDAMENTA ENTOMOLOGIÆ; OR AN
INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF
INSECTS. Tr. by Wm. Curtis, 1772.
GENERIC AND SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF
BRITISH PLANTS. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED
AN ENTOMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY, AND A
GLOSSARY. Tr. by J. Jenkinson, 1775.
INSTITUTES OF BOTANY, containing descriptions
of all the known genera of plants. Tr. by C.
Milne, 1770.
MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS RELATING TO
NATURAL HISTORY, HUSBANDRY AND PHYSICK.
Tr. from the Latin by B. Stillingfleet, 1759.
PRINCIPIA BOTANICA: OR A CONCISE
INTRODUCTION TO THE SEXUAL BOTANY
OF LINNÆUS. Tr. 1787.
REFLECTIONS ON THE STUDY OF NATURE.
Tr. [by J. E. Smith] 1785.
LISLE, C. J. ROUGET DE. b. 1760, d. 1836. French
poet.
MARSEILLAISE. (1792.) Tr. 1793.
LIVY (TITUS LIVIUS). b. 59 B.C., d. 17 A.D. Roman
historian.
THE HISTORIE OF ... ANNIBALL AND
SCIPIO. Tr. out of T. Livius and other authoures,
1544.
THE ORATOR: HANDLING A HUNDRED
SEVERALL DISCOURSES, ETC. Some of the
Arguments being drawne from T. Livius and other
ancient writers, 1596.
THE ROMANE HISTORIE. Also the Breviaries
of L. Florus, with a chronologie of the whole Historie,
and the Topographie of Rome in the Old Time. Tr.
by P. Holland, 1600.
LONGUS. 5th century. Greek sophist.
DAPHNIS AND CHLOE. Tr. by Angel Day
[1587].
'This pastoral romance played no small part in the conception of
the French sentimental romances of the seventeenth century, beginning
with D'Urfé and carried on by Scudéry and La Calprenède. This work
contains the new element of pastoral setting and description, and some
novelty of simple sentiment'. Tr. by Day from Amyot's tr.
LOTI, PIERRE. Louis Marie Viaud. b. 1850.
MADAME CHRYSANTHÈME. Tr. L. Ensor,
[1888].
RARAHU; or, THE MARRIAGE OF LOTI.
Tr. C. Bell, 1890.
MY BROTHER YRÈS. Tr. M. P. Fletcher, 1887.
AN ICELAND FISHERMAN. Tr. 1888.
CHILD ROMANCE. Tr. C. Bell, 1891.
PHANTOM FROM THE EAST. Tr. J. E. Gordon,
1892.
BOOK OF PITY AND DEATH. Tr. T. P.
O'Connor, 1892.
ROMANCE OF A SPAHI. Tr. M. L. Watkins,
1890.
LUCAN. b. 39, d. 65. Roman epic poet.
LUCAN'S FIRST BOOK OF THE CIVIL WAR
BETWEEN POMPEY AND CÆSAR. Translated
line for line by Chas. Marlowe, 1600.
PHARSALIA. Containing the Civill Warres between
Cæsar and Pompey. Tr. into English verse
by Sir Arthur Gorges, Kt.... 1614.
Lucan and 'Stace' (Statius) formed the chief Latin reading of Chaucer's
time. Addison's 'Campaign', and Drayton's 'Barons' War' are also
clearly influenced by Lucan.
LUCIAN. b. 125, d. 180. Greek author.
CERTAIN SELECT DIALOGUES OF LUCIAN,
TOGETHER WITH HIS TRUE HISTORIE.
Translated by F. Hicks. Also a Life of Lucian
gathered out of his own writings. By F. H[ickes],
1634.
NECROMANTIA: a Dialog of the Poet Lucyan
for the Tantsaye Faymyd for a mery Pastyme. Tr.
[1537].
PLEASANT DIALOGUES AND DRAMMA'S
SELECTED OUT OF LUCIAN, ERASMUS, ETC.
Tr. by Thos. Heywood, 1637.
THE WORKS OF LUCIAN. Tr. by Ferrand
Spence, 1684.
Influenced Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', 'Tale of a Tub' and 'The
Battle of the Books' and the works of Sterne. Sterne is sometimes
known as the 'English Lucian'.
LUCILIUS, GAIUS. b. 148 B.C., d. 100 B.C. Roman
satiric poet.
THE FRAGMENTS OF LUCILIUS literally
translated into English Prose ... by L. Evans,
1848.
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS). b. 95,
d. 52 B.C. Latin poet.
AN ESSAY ON THE FIRST BOOK OF T.
LUCRETIUS CARUS, with a metrical Version
and Notes, by John Evelyn, Esqre., 1656.
LUCRETIUS DE RERUM NATURA, with a
free prose English version, 1743.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS. Tr. into English
verse by Thomas Creech, 1683.
Influence of Lucretius seen in Pope's 'Essay on Man'. Formed favourite
reading of Shelley, Wordsworth and Tennyson.
Dyer's 'Fleece' and Akenside's 'Pleasures of the Imagination' are the
outcome of the study of Lucretius and the 'Georgics' of Virgil.
LUTHER, MARTIN. b. 1483, d. 1546. Leader of
the Reformation in Germany.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER,
now first tr. from the original by Rev. J. P. Lawson,
1836.
A BOKE MADE BY A CERTAYNE GREAT
CLERKE AGAYNST THE NEW IDOLE AND
OLDE DEVYLL, WHICH OF LATE TYME IN
MISNIA SHOULD HAVE BEN CANONISED
FOR A SAYNT, 1534.
COLLOQUIA MENSALIA (TABLE TALK), OR
DIVINE DISCOURSES AT HIS TABLE, ETC.,
collected first together by Dr. A. Lauterbach....
Tr. out of High German ... by Captn. Henrie Bell,
1652.
A FRUITEFULL AND GODLY EXPOSITION
AND DECLARACION OF THE KYNGDOM OF
CHRIST. Tr. by [W. Lynne], 1548.
M. LUTHER'S EXPOSITION OF THE 23RD
PSALM. Tr. by Miles Coverdale, 1537.
ON THE CHIEFE ARTICLES OF THE CHRISTIAN
FAYTHE, ETC. Tr. 1548.
THIRTIE-FOUR SPECIAL AND CHOSEN
SERMONS, ETC., Englisshed by W. Gace, 1581.
A TREATISE TOUCHING THE LIBERTIE OF
A CHRISTIAN. Tr. by J. Bell, 1579.
'As a translator of the Bible into the Upper-Saxon dialect, and as having
thus fixed the modern German language, he is of the greatest importance
to Germany itself. To us his value is that of a thinker or moral force'.
LYSIAS. 4th century B.C. Greek orator.
ORATIONS OF LYSIAN AND ISOCRATES,
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIVES, AND
A DISCOURSE ON THE HISTORY, MANNERS,
AND CHARACTERS OF THE GREEKS. Tr.
John Gillies, 1778.
MABINOGION.
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE. Ed. and Tr.,
Mabinogion, fr. Llyfr Coch o Hergest and other
MSS. 3 v. 1838-49.
MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO DI BERNARDO DEI.
b. 1469, d. 1527. Italian statesman, diplomatist
and writer.
THE ARTE OF WARRE, set forth in English by
Peter Whitehorne, with an addicion of other like
Marcialle Feates and Experiments, 1560.
A DISCOURSE UPON THE MEANES OF WEL
GOVERNING AND MAINTAINING IN GOOD
PEACE, A KINGDOME OR OTHER PRINCIPALITIE
... AGAINST N. MACHIAVELLL [By I.
Gentillet]. Tr. by S. Patericke, 1602.
THE FLORENTINE HISTORIE. Tr. by
T(homas) B(edingfield), 1594.
NICOLAS MACHIAVELL'S PRINCE. Also, THE
LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO OF LUCCA. AND THE
MEANES DUKE VALENTINE US'D TO PUT TO
DEATH V. VITELLOZZO, ETC. Tr. by E(dward)
D(acres), 1640.
WORKS. Tr. by Henry Nevile, 1675.
Of the works of M., 'The Prince' was the most widely read.
MAETERLINCK, MAURICE. b. 1864. Belgian
dramatist.
ALLADINE AND PALOMIDES, INTERIOR,
AND THE DEATH OF TINTAGILES. Tr. 1899.
BURIED TEMPLE. Tr. by A. Sutro, 1902.
THE DOUBLE GARDEN. Tr. by A. Teixeira
de Mattos, 1904.
JOYZELLE. Tr. by A. Teixeira de Mattos, 1906.
LIFE AND FLOWERS. Tr. by A. Teixeira de
Mattos, 1907.
LIFE OF THE BEE. Tr. by A. Sutro, 1901.
MAURICE AGLAVAINE AND SELYSETTE.
A Drama. Tr. by A. Sutro, 1897.
MONNA VANNA. Tr. by A. Sutro, 1904.
MY DOG. Tr. by A. Teixeira de Mattos, 1906.
OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS, AND OTHER
OPEN-AIR ESSAYS. Tr. by A. Teixeira de Mattos,
1906.
PELLEAS AND MELISANDA. Tr. by Erving
Winslow, 1893.
PRINCESS MALEINE (1890) AND THE INTRUDER.
Tr. by G. Harry, 1892.
RUYSBROECK AND THE MYSTICS, WITH
SELECTIONS. Tr. 1894.
SIGHTLESS, THE. Tr. with Pelleas and Melisanda
[tr. 1893]. 1895.
SISTER BEATRICE, AND ARDIANE AND
BARBE BLEUE. Tr. by B. Miall, 1901.
TREASURE OF THE HUMBLE. Tr. by A.
Sutro, 1897.
WISDOM AND DESTINY. Tr. by A. Sutro, 1898.
'On the appearance of "The Princess Maleine" in 1890, the author,
hitherto known only to a small circle of amateurs, at once sprang into fame
on the continent.... As a brooding poet, a mystic, and a contemplative
spectator of the comedy of death, whose work is couched, almost by a sort
of accident, in dramatic form, Maeterlinck will probably find a place in
literature'.
MAFFEI, FRANCISCO SCIPIONE. b. 1675, d. 1755.
Italian scholar and author.
[1] COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
AMPHITHEATRES ... AND IN PARTICULAR
THAT OF VERONA. 'Verona Illustra'. Tr. by
A. Gordon, 1730.
MEROPE: a tragedy (1713). Tr. by Mr. Ayre,
1740.
[1] His principal work. Noted for its profound research, sound criticism
and elegant style.
MAHABHARATA AND RÁMÁYANA. The two great
epic poems of ancient India. Many episodes
as the Bhagavad-Gítá have been separately edited
and translated.
MAHABHARATA. The Story of Dooshivanta
and Sakoontala, extracted from the Mahabharata
(1. 2801-3121), a poem.... Tr. by C. Wilkins.
Postscript containing part of the institutes of Manoo
on transmigration and final beatitude. Tr. by Sir
W. Jones, 1793.
MAHABHARATA. A complete English prose
translation by Hindus, of which up to 1890 fifty
parts had appeared and were published and distributed,
chiefly gratis, at Calcutta, under the auspices
of Pratápachandra Roy, 1883 (in progress).
THE RÁMÁYANA OF VALMEEKI, in the
original Sanskrit; with an English prose translation
and explanatory notes by W. Carey and J. Marshman,
1806, 8, 10.
[This work was intended to form nine volumes, but only three appeared.]
THE BHAGVAT-GEETA, or Dialogues of Kreeshna
and Arjoon, in eighteen lectures, with notes translated
from the original, in the Sanskreet, or ancient
language of the Brahmans. By Chas. Wilkins, 1785.
Mahabharata, the name of the great epic poem of the Hindoos, so called
because it treats of the war waged among the descendants of Bharata.
It is said to contain 200,000 lines, or 100,000 double verses, the compilation
of many writers, living in different ages.
MAIMONIDES (RABBI BEN MAIMON). b. 1135,
d. 1204. Jewish rabbi and philosopher.
GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED (Moreh Nevochim).
Tr. by Dr. M. Friedländer, 3 v., 1885.
MAIN PRINCIPLES OF THE CREED AND
ETHICS OF THE JEWS, EXHIBITED IN SELECTIONS
FROM THE YAD HACKAZAKAH, WITH
A LITERAL TRANSLATION, GLOSSARY, AND
NOTES. 1832.
THE REASONS OF THE LAWS OF MOSES
FROM THE MOREH NEVOCHIM (DOCTOR
PERPLEXORUM) OF MAIMONIDES, with notes,
etc., and a Life of the author by James Townley,
1827.
MALEBRANCHE, NICHOLAS. b. 1638, d. 1715.
French philosopher.
TREATISE ON MORALITY. (1684.) Tr. 1699.
SEARCH AFTER TRUTH. Tr. R. Sault. 2 v.
1692-94.
TREATISE OF NATURE AND GRACE. To
which is added the Author's Idea of Providence....
Tr. 1695.
CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES.... Tr. 1695.
MANTUANUSO. See Spagnuoli, Baptista. Mantuanus.
MANUEL, JUAN. d. 1350. Spanish author.
COUNT LUCANOV: FIFTY PLEASANT
STORIES. Tr. James York. [1868].
MANZONI, ALESSANDRO. b. 1785, d. 1873. Italian
novelist and poet.
THE BETROTHED LOVERS. I Promessi
Sposi (1825-7). Tr. [by C. Swan], 1828.
MANUEL, DON JUAN. d. 1350. Spanish prince
and author.
THE COUNT LUCANOR. First done into
English ... by James York [1868].
Shakespeare derived his 'Taming of the Shrew' indirectly through M.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS. b. 121, d. 180.
Roman emperor and philosopher.
THE GOLDEN BOKE OF. Translated out of the
French. By John Bouchier, Knight, Lord Berners.
[1534.]
MEDITATIONS. With notes. Tr. by M. Casaubon,
1634.
MARGUERITE OF NAVARRE. b. 1492, d. 1549.
A GODLY MEDYTACION OF THE CHRISTEN
SOWLE, CONCERNING A LOVE TOWARDES
GOD AND HYS CHRYSTE, Etc. Tr. by the Lady
Elizabeth, 1548.
HEPTAMERON (1558). Tr. by R. Codrington,
1654. 1st Tr. 1597.
A series of stories and novelettes in the style of the 'Decameron',
largely erotic.
MARINI, GIAMBATTISTA. b. 1569, d. 1625. Italian
poet.
A POEM ON THE SLAUGHTER OF THE
INNOCENTS. Tr. by T. R., 1675.
ECHO. [A sonnet. Tr. by T. Stanley], 1651.
Famous for his fantastic style known as 'Marinism'.
Marini's affected figures of speech, far-fetched comparisons, and tricks
of verbiage, as illustrated particularly in his romantic 'Adone', characterized
a generation of writers.
MARIVAUX, PIERRE CARLOT DE CHAMBLAIN
DE. b. 1688, d. 1763. French novelist and
dramatic writer.
THE AGREEABLE SURPRISE. Tr. 1766.
PHARSAMOND: or, THE NEW KNIGHT
ERRANT. In which is introduced the story of the
Fair Anchoret, with that of Tarminia and her unfortunate
daughter. Tr. by Mr. Lockman, 2 v., 1750.
[1] THE VIRTUOUS ORPHAN, or THE LIFE OF
MARIANNE COUNTESSE OF ... Tr. 4 v., 1784.
[1] Among the first novels which delineated real life and manners.
M. appears to have distinctly influenced Richardson, whose 'Pamela'
bears a strange similarity to 'Marianne'.
MARMONTEL, JEAN FRANÇOIS. b. 1723, d. 1799.
French dramatist and critic.
MORAL TALES. Tr. C. Dennis and R. Lloyd.
3 v. 1764.
NEW MORAL TALES. Tr. 1792.
THE INCAS, OR THE DESTRUCTION OF
PERU. Tr. 1777.
BELISARIUS. Tr. 1767.
SELECT MORAL TALES. Tr. [R. Roberts]
1763.
TALES OF AN EVENING. 4 v. Tr. 1792-94.
MEMOIRS, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF: containing
his literary and political life, and anecdotes
of the principal characters of the eighteenth century.
Tr. 1805. 4 v.
MAROT, CLEMENT. b. 1495, d. 1544. French
poet.
Some translations from Clement Marot will be found in 'Ronsard and
La Pléiade'. By G. Wyndham, 1906.
Had a great influence upon the lyrics of Wyatt and Spenser. The latter
copied Marot in his pastoral poems, or eclogues.
The 'Style Marotique' was imitated by La Fontaine and other French
writers.
MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS). b.
43, d. 104. Latin epigrammatic poet.
FLOWERS OF EPIGRAMS, FROM MARTIAL
AND OTHERS. Tr. by T. Kendall, 1577.
SALES EPIGRAMMATUM. Being the choycest
disticks of Martials Fourteen books of epigrams.
Tr. 1644.
SELECT EPIGRAMS OF MARTIAL. Tr. by
Tho. May, 1629.
'The modern conception of epigram is entirely taken from the Latin
form. Martial is the one model'. 'It is Martial who has determined
the form and matter of the epigram for modern Europe'.
Jonson imitated Martial in his epigrams.
MASSILON, JEAN B. b. 1663, d. 1742. French
preacher.
SERMONS. Tr. W. Dickson, 1798.
SERMONS ON THE DUTIES OF THE GREAT.
Tr. Wm. Dodd, 1769.
THE CHARGES OF MASSILON: I, ON THE
ART OF PREACHING. II, ON THE COMPOSITION
OF A SERMON. Tr. T. St. John (the
Rev. S. Clapham), 1805.
AN EPISCOPAL CHARGE.... Tr. 1784.
MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. b. 1850, d. 1893. French
poet.
AFLOAT. Tr. by L. Ensor, 1889.
A LADIES' MAN (1887). Tr. 1888.
MADAME TELLIER'S GIRLS.... THE INHERITANCE....
BUTTER-BALL. Tr. E.
Ellis, 1897.
MISS HARRIET. Tr. 1885.
THE ODD NUMBER. THIRTEEN TALES.
Tr. J. Sturges, 1891.
ON THE RIVER. Tr. by J. Sturges, 1890.
PIERRE AND JEAN (1888). Tr. by C. Bell,
1890.
A WOMAN'S LIFE. Tr. 1885.
MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE. b. 1805, d. 1872. Italian
patriot and writer.
THE DUTIES OF MAN (1858). Tr. 1862.
LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JOSEPH MAZZINI.
6 v. Tr. 1864-70.
THE ITALIAN QUESTION AND THE REPUBLICANS.
Tr. 1861.
MEINHOLD, JOHANN WILHELM. b. 1797, d. 1851.
German writer and divine.
[1] THE AMBER WITCH. Tr. by Lady Duff
Gordon, 1844.
SIDONIA THE SORCERESS. Tr. 1861.
[1] Made a great sensation, and was regarded for some time as a true
narrative. The English translation was characterized by a writer in the
Quarterly Review as a tale worthy of Defoe.
MELUSINE (JEAN D'ARRAS).
PROSE ROMANCE. Ed. A. K. Donald. E.E.T.S.
Ex. Ser. lxviii. See also Parthenon, p. 111.
MENANDER. b. 341 B.C. Greek dramatic poet.
FRAGMENTS. Translations of some of the
Fragments of Menander by Jos. Warton will be found
in the Adventurer, No. 105. Also in Fawkes's Poems,
1761, and Colman's version of Terence.
MENDOZA, DIAGO DE. See Lazarillo de Tormes.
MERIMÉE, PROSPER. b. 1803, d. 1870. French
novelist and historian.
CARMEN, (1845). Tr. 1845.
COLOMBA: a Corsican story ... (1840). Tr. by
A. R. Scoble, 1853.
DEMETRIUS THE IMPOSTOR: an Episode in
Russian History. Tr. by A. R. Scoble, 1853.
MERLIN; or, The Early History of King Arthur.
C. 1450-60. Ed. H. B. Wheatley. E.E.T.S. 1860-69.
'An early chapter in the mythical history of Arthurian Britain. Tr.
from a French romance (13th century) that was based on a poem by
Robert de Borron. Covers in more prolix fashion the first five books of
Malory'.
METASTASIO, PIETRO TRAPASSI. b. 1698, d. 1782.
Italian poet.
ADRIANO IN SIRIA; drama, etc. [Altered
from M.; Italian and English]. 1735.
ARTAXERXES; an opera. [Altered from M.].
Tr. 1734.
DEATH OF ABEL. An Oratorio ... Tr. 1768.
THE DESERT ISLAND; a dramatic poem. Tr.
by A. Murphy, 1760.
DIDONE. Tr. 1754.
DRAMAS, AND OTHER POEMS. Tr. by John
Hoole, 1800.
ENDIMIONE; Serenata. Tr. 1758.
THE PATRIOT; a tragedy. Tr. by Chas.
Hamilton, 1784.
WORKS. Tr. by J. Hoole, 1767.
MICHELET, JULES. b. 1798, d. 1874. French
historian.
ROMAN HISTORY: THE REPUBLIC (1831).
Tr. 1847.
HISTORY OF FRANCE (1833). 4 v. Tr.
D. K. Kelly, 1844-46.
HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
7 v. (1847-53.) Tr. by C. Cocks. 1847.
THE MARTYRS OF RUSSIA. Tr. 1851.
FRANCE BEFORE EUROPE. Tr. 1871.
LIFE OF LUTHER. Tr. W. Hazlitt, 1846.
PRIESTS, WOMEN AND FAMILIES. Tr.
C. Cocks, 1845.
MICKIEWICZ, ADAM. b. 1798, d. 1855. Polish
poet.
CONRAD WALLENROD: an historical poem.
Tr. by J. Jablonski, 1841.
MASTER THADDEUS (PAN TADEUSZ); or,
THE LAST FORAY IN LUTHANIA ... an historical
epic poem. Tr. by N. A. Biggs, with a preface
by W. R. Morfill, 1885.
MIRACLE PLAYS. See under Name of plays as
Coventry, Digby, etc.
MOHAMMED. b. 570, d. 632.
THE KORAN OF MOHAMMED. Translated.
With explanatory notes and a preliminary discourse
by George Sale, 1734.
THE ALCORAN OF MOHOMET, translated out
of Aribique into French by Lieut. Du Ryer ... and
newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire
to look into the Turkish vanities. (A needful Caveat,
or Admonition for them who desire to know what
use may be made of, or if there be danger in reading
the Alcoran, by A. Ross, 1642.)
MOLIÈRE, JEAN B. P. b. 1622, d. 1673. French
dramatist.
THE METAMORPHOSES; or, THE OLD LOVER
OUTWITTED; a farce, (1669). Tr. by John Cory,
1704.
THE MISER: a comedy [in five acts and in
prose]. (1667.) Tr. by T. Shadwell, 1672.
MONSIEUR DE POURCEAUGNAC; or, SQUIRE
TRELOOBY. Tr. by J. Ozell, 1704.
QUACKS; or, LOVE THE PHYSICIAN (1665).
Tr. by Mr. Swinny, 1705.
TARTUFFE; or THE FRENCH PURITAN; a
comedy (1667). Tr. by M. Medburne, 1670.
WORKS; The first collected works were translated
by J. Ozell, 6 v. 1714.
The writings of Molière were greatly influenced by the dramas of Plautus.
His 'L'Avare' is from the 'Aulularia', and his 'Amphitryon' from 'Amphitruo'.
Molière was also influenced by the writings of Terence, and his 'Ecole
des Maris' is from the 'Adelphi', and his 'Les Fourberies de Scapin'
from the 'Phormio' of Terence.
The plays of M. were imitated by Wycherley and Farquhar and the post-Restoration
dramatists. Meredith in his 'Essay on Comedy' admits his
profound and salutary influence on English fiction.
Molière was copied, adapted, translated by English writers, and that
not merely for reading, but for acting purposes. Dryden translated
'L'Etourdi' as 'Sir Martin Mar-All'; Vanburgh turned 'Le Dépit
Amoureux' into 'The Mistake'; Wycherley offered 'The Plain Dealer'
as a version of 'Le Misanthrope'; Fielding's 'Mock-Doctor' is 'Le
Médecin Malgré Lui', his 'Miser' is Molière's 'L'Avare'; Colley Cibber
converted 'Tartuffe' into 'The Non-Juror'.
MONTAIGNE, MICHAEL E. DE. b. 1533, d. 1589.
French philosopher and essayist.
THE ESSAYS, (ESSAIS) or, MORALL, POLITIKE
AND MILLITARIE DISCOURSES OF LO:
M. DE MONTAIGNE ... now done into English
by J. Florio, 1603.
The first model of the essay. To Elizabethan England the 'Essays'
of M. were well-known either directly or through the translation of Florio.
The 'Essays' of Bacon are clearly indebted to his example. How far
his influence has extended is incalculable.
MONTALBAN, PEREZ DE.
THE SPANISH BAWDE. Tr. 1631. [Attached
to Aleman's 'Spanish Rogue'].
AURORA AND THE PRINCE [novela of 'Successosy
Prodigios de Amor']. By Don J. Perez de
M. Tr. T[homas] S[tanley], 1647.
THE ILLUSTRIOUS SHEPHERDESS. Tr.
1656.
MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES DE. b. 1810,
d. 1870. French historian and political writer.
THE CONVERSION OF ENGLAND, BEING
A SEQUEL TO THE MONKS OF THE WEST.
3 v. Tr. 1867.
THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF ENGLAND.
(1855). Tr. H. Barrow, 1856.
THE MONKS OF THE WEST. (1860). 7 v.
Tr. 1861-79.
MONTEMAYOR, GEORGE. b. 1520. Portuguese
poet and novelist.
DIANA. [With a second part of A. Perez and also
a continuation: entitled, Enamoured Diana, by G. G.
Polo.] Tr. by B. Yong, 1598.
Spenser's 'Shepherd's Calendar' and Sidney's 'Arcadia' are both influenced
by M.
'From the "Arcadia" of Sanazzaro on the one hand, and from the
"libros de caballerias" on the other, the Portuguese-Spaniard Montemayor
created his famous "Diana." This work, like Sidney's "Arcadia," is
partly in prose and partly in verse, and, in such English development as
arose from the pastoral, the influence of the Spaniard must be reckoned
with that of the Neapolitan. It appears in Spenser's "Shepheard's Calendar",
and incidentally, it may be observed, that before writing his "Two Gentlemen
of Verona" Shakespeare would seem at least to have been told of the substance
of Montemayor'.
MONTESQUIEU, CHARLES DE SECONDAT, BARON
DE LA BRÉDE ET DE. b. 1689, d. 1755.
French author.
CURIOUS THOUGHTS ON THE HISTORY OF
MAN. Tr. 1789.
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. Tr. 1759.
[1] PERSIAN LETTERS. (LETTRES PERSANES
1721.) Tr. by J. Ozell, 1730.
REFLECTIONS ON THE RISE AND FALL OF
THE ROMAN EMPIRE. (Causes de la Grandeau
des Romains et de leur Decadence 1734.) Tr. 1751.
SPIRIT OF LAWS. (De l'Esprit des Lois, 1748).
Tr. by Mrs. Nugent, 1752.
THE TEMPLE OF GNIDUS: a poem. Tr. by
John Sayer, 1765.
WORKS. Translated, 1777.
[1] 'A criticism of the social and religious conditions of contemporary
France. The book is an expression of freethought, and the reaction against
monarchical and ecclesiastical despotism expressed later in the "Esprit
des Lois"'.
MONTI, VINCENZO. b. 1754, d. 1828. Italian poet.
THE PENANCE OF HUGO, a Vision on the
French Revolution.... Tr. by Henry Boyd, 1805.
ARISTODEMO. Tr. J. A. Favalli, 1809.
DEATH OF BASSEVILLE. Tr. [A. Lodge]
1845.
MORTE ARTHUR. (In Stanzas.)
Ed. Roxburghe Club, 1819.
Ed. Furnivall, F. J., 1864.
Ed. Bruce, J. D. E.E.T.S., Ex. Ser. lxxxviii.
MORTE ARTHURE, probably by Huchown of the
Awle Ryale, author of Swete Susan. See p. 76.
(Alliterative.) C. 1440.
Ed. Halliwell, 1847.
Ed. Perry and Brock, E.E.T.S., viii. 1865.
MOTTEVILLE, MADAME DE. b. 1612, d. 1689.
French memoir writer.
MEMOIRS TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF
ANNE OF AUSTRIA. 5 v. Tr. 1726.
MUNCH, A. b. 1811, d. 1884. Norwegian poet.
MAID OF NORWAY. Tr. Mrs. Birkbeck, 1877.
LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL. A TRAGEDY
Tr. J. Chapman, 1858.
MUNCHAUSEN, BARON. See Baron Munchausen.
MURGER, HENRY. b. 1822, d. 1861. French
novelist.
BOHEMIANS OF THE LATIN QUARTER.
Tr. 1887. (Scenes in Bohemian Life.)
MUSÆUS. 5th century. Greek poet.
THE DIVINE POEM OF MUSÆUS (HERO
AND LEANDER). FIRST OF ALL BOOKES.
Tr. Geo. Chapman, 1616.
THE SECOND PART OF THE LOVES OF
HERO AND LEANDER, by H. Petowe, 1598.
MUSÆUS, OR THE LOVES OF HERO AND
LEANDER. Tr. Sir Robert Stapylton, 1647.
See also under Anacreon.
MUSSET, LOUIS CHARLES ALFRED DE. b. 1810,
d. 1857. French poet.
FANTASIO: a proverbe [in two acts]. Tr. 1852.
A GOOD LITTLE WIFE. Tr. 1850.
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.]
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.
ROMAN HISTORY. Tr. Sir Robert le Grys, 1632.
PAUSANIAS. 150 to 200. Greek traveller and
author.
THE DESCRIPTION OF GREECE. Tr. Tom
Taylor. 3 v. 1794.
AN EXTRACT OF PAUSANIUS. Of the Statues,
Pictures and Temples in Greece. Tr. 1758.
PEARL, THE.
Ed. R. Morris, E.E.T.S., 1869. Tr. by I. Gollancz
1891.
'Ranks among the most charming of old English poems, both in thought
and delicacy of feeling'.
PELLICO, SILVIO. b. 1788, d. 1854. Italian poet.
ON THE DUTIES OF MAN. Tr. T. Roscoe,
1837.
MY IMPRISONMENTS. Tr. [T. Roscoe], 1826.
PERCEVAL, SIR, OF GALLES. See Sir Percival.
PERRAULT, CHARLES. b. 1628, d. 1703. French
author.
CHARACTERS OF THE GREATEST MEN IN
FRANCE DURING THE 17TH CENTURY (1696-1700).
(Hommes Illustres de Siècle de Louis XIV).
Tr. by J. Ozell, 1704-5.
FABLES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH VERSE.
Tr. 1741.
FAIRY TALES. (Histoires ou Contes du Temps
Passé, 1697.)
PERSIAN ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.
MESNEVI, THE. Tr. J. W. Redhouse. (Oriental
Ser.). 1881.
PELLY, COL. SIR L. MIRACLE PLAYS OF
HASAN AND HUSAIN. 2 v. 1879.
PHILLIPS, AMBROSE. Tr. PERSIAN TALES.
3 v. 1714-15.
PERSIAN TALES: a new translation, by Edward
Button, 1754.
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS). 50 A.D.
Latin satiric poet.
HIS SATIRES. Tr. into English [verse], by Barton
Holyday, etc., 1616.
PETOFI, ALEX. b. 1823-49. Hungarian author.
TRANSLATIONS FROM. By Sir J. Bowring,
1866.
SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF P. Tr.
H. Phillips, 1885.
PETRARCH (FRANCESCA PETRARCA). b. 1304,
d. 1374. Italian poet.
COMPLAINTS. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes
of the World's Vanities. Tr. by Ed. Sp.[enser], 1591.
PETRARCHES VISIONS, [being a translation ...
of the Canzone 'Standomi un giorno solo, alla
fenestra']. Tr. by Ed. Sp.[enser], 1591.
PHISICKE AGAINST FORTUNE. Tr. [by Thos.
Twyne.] 1579.
SONNETS [30] AND [3] ODES. Tr. 1777.
A THEATRE WHERIN BE REPRESENTED
THE MISERIES ... THAT FOLLOW THE VOLUPTUOUS
WORLDLINGS, etc. [With Epigrams.
Tr. from the Sonnets of Petrarch]. 1569.
THE TRYUMPHES OF FRAUNCES PETRACKE.
Tr. by Henry Parker Knight ... Lorde Morley, 1565.
The form of the sonnets of Petrarch as introduced into England by Wyatt
and Surrey became very popular in the time of Elizabeth. The following
are amongst the more important writers of sonnets influenced by P.: Sidney,
'Astrophel and Stella'; Dryden, 'Idea'; Constable, 'Diana'; Daniel,
'Delia'; Watson, 'Teares of Fansie'; Spenser, 'Amoretta'; Shakespeare,
'Sonnets'; and Milton, 'Sonnets'; Tottel's 'Miscellany' (which
as a collection of the Elizabethan poets) is markedly influenced by P.
PETRONIUS. c. 50. Latin satirist.
THE SATYR OF TITUS PETRONIUS ARBITER.
Tr. by Wm. Burnaby and another Hand, 1694.
THE SATYRICAL WORKS OF T. PETRONIUS,
ARBITER IN PROSE AND VERSE ... made
English by Mr. Wilson, Mr. Burnaby, Mr. Blount,
Mr. Brown, etc.... To which is added The Charms
of Liberty ... 1708.
PHAEDRUS. c. 20. Latin fabulist.
FABLES. [Book 1.] Tr. 1646.
FABLES. Tr. by J. Davidson, 1745.
FIFTY FABLES OF PHÆDRUS, in Latin,
French and English. Tr. by D. Bellamy, 1734.
'Phaedrus put into verse the Greek fables—commonly fathered all alike
on "Æsop"—which he could find current in his day. The collection is
probably much the same as that of the Greek "Demetrius Phalereus" (300
B.C.). From the point of view of both morals and language, the book
served admirably for schoolboys, and it is at least one of the main sources
of the fables which found their way into England, first with Alfred, and,
later, in more force with Caxton's "Æsop"'.
PILPAY (BÍDPÁÍ). Oriental fabulist.
[1] THE MORALL PHILOSOPHIE OF DONI—drawne
out of Ancient Writers ... Tr. by Sir T.
North, 1570.
THE INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING
FABLES OF PILPAY made English (for the Duke of
Gloucester), 1679.
[1] [This celebrated Arabian fable-book, 'Calilah i Dumnah' (q.v.) is
better known in Europe as 'Pilpay's Fables'.]
Several European fabulists, including Æsop, La Fontaine, have drawn
largely from the fables of P.
PINDAR. b. 522, d. 442 B.C. Greek lyric poet.
ODES: Selected; with several other pieces in
Prose and Verse by Gilbert West, 1749.
THE ODES OF PINDAR ... Tr. ... including
those of Mr. West. The whole completed by F. Lee,
1810.
PINDARIQUES. B. R. Fleming. (A translation
of four of the Odes of Pindar, etc.). 1691.
Horace modelled his work on Pindar. Imitated by Cowley in 'Pindaric
Odes', by Dryden in 'Song for St. Cecilia's Day', 'Alexander's Feast',
by Pope, in 'Ode on St. Cecilia's Day', by Gray in 'Progress of Poesy', by
Shelley in 'Ode to Liberty'.
'Milton's "Ode on the Morning of the Nativity" is intended to be Pindaric'.
PINEAU DUCLOS (CHARLES). See Duclos.
PLATO. b. 427, d. 347 B.C. Greek philosopher.
APOLOGY OF SOCRATES AND PHÆDO OF
PLATO. Tr. 1675.
AXIOCHUS: ON THE SHORTNESS AND
UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE. Tr. 1592.
DIALOGUES. Tr. by Flower Sydenham, 1767-80.
ORATIONS OF PERICLES AND PLATO IN
PRAISE OF THE ATHENIANS SLAIN IN BATTLE.
Tr. by E. Bentham, 1759.
REPUBLIC OF PLATO. Tr. by W. Spens, 1763.
WORKS OF PLATO, abridg'd, with an account
of his life, philosophy, morals and politics, together
with a translation of his choicest dialogues. By M.
Dacier. Tr. from the French, 1701.
The 'Republic' is the model for all ideal commonwealths, e.g. More's
'Utopia', Bacon's 'New Atlantis', etc. Berkeley's 'Alciphron' is based
on the 'Dialogues'.
The philosophy of P. influenced the poetry of Shelley, and Wordsworth's
'Intimations of Immortality'. His philosophy has affected all subsequent
philosophers.
PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS. b. 254, d. 184 B.C.
Roman comedian.
COMEDIES. Amphitryon, Epidicus and Rudens.
Tr. by [Laurence Echard]. 1694.
MENAECMI. A pleasant comœdie. Written in
Englishe by W. W[arner], 1595.
Formed type of Italian comedy of Renaissance. Shakespeare's
'Comedy of Errors' is an adaptation from Plautus's 'Menaechmi'.
Dryden's 'Amphitryon' is adapted from Plautus through Molière.
'Sackville sought his comic models in Plautus'.
PLINY (GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS). The elder.
b. 23, d. 79. Latin writer.
THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD, commonly
called the Natural Historie of Pliny. Tr. by P.
Holland, 1601.
THE SECRETS AND WONDERS OF THE
WORLD. A Booke ryght rare and Straunge, contayning
many excellent properties given to Man,
Beasts, Foules ... Trees and Plants. Tr. 1585.
A SUMMARIE OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND
WONDERS OF THE WORLDE, abstracted out of
the sixtene first bookes of Pliny. Tr. by J. R. [1565].
An important source of our knowledge of early science.
'Doubtless Pliny's "Encyclopædia" is ultimately responsible for much
of the confused natural history of the Middle Ages, and not only Chaucer,
but also the sixteenth century Euphuists, with their egregious similitudes,
are almost certainly in his debt'.
PLINY, CAIUS. (CAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS
SECUNDUS.) The younger. b. 61 A.D., Latin
author and orator.
THE LETTERS OF PLINY THE CONSUL,
with occasional remarks by Wm. Melmoth, 1746.
The 'Letters of Pliny' are the most precious relics of Roman epistolary
correspondence that have come down to us.
The model for the modern letters of Horace Walpole and Pope.
PLUTARCH. b. 50, d. 120. Greek philosopher
and moralist. The greatest biographer of antiquity.
THE EDUCATION or BRINGING UP OF
CHILDREN. Tr. out of Plutarch. By Syr T.
Eliot [1535].
THE GOVERNAÑCE OF GOOD HELTHE, by
the most excellent phylosopher Plutarche [1530].
HOWE ONE MAY TAKE PROFITE OF HIS
ENMYES, translated out of Plutarche [by Sir T.
Elyot] [1535].
THE LIVES OF THE MOST NOBLE GRECIANS
AND ROMANS COMPARED TOGETHER BY
PLUTARKE. Tr. [from the French of Amyot]
by Thomas North, 1579.
THE PHILOSOPHIE, COMMONLY CALLED
THE MORALS. Tr. by P. Holland, 1603.
A RIGHT NOBLE HISTORY OF THE SUCCESSORS
OF ALEXANDER AND SOME OF
THEIR LIVES. Written by ... P. etc., 1569.
Shakespeare used North's tr. of Plutarch's 'Lives' freely for his plots as
is seen in Coriolanus, Julius Caesar. P. also initiated the biographical
essay, of whom we have the best exponent in Macaulay. Has formed a
model for all later writers.
POEMA MORALE. (Moral Ode.)
Ed. Text and Tr. R. Morris, 'Old English Homilies',
1878.
POLISH ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.
BOWRING, Sir JOHN. Tr. SPECIMENS OF
THE POLISH POETS. 1827.
POLIZIANO, ANGELO (POLITIAN). b. 1454, d.
1494. Italian classical scholar and poet.
HISTORY OF HERODIAN. Tr. ... by N.
Smyth. [1550.]
ORFEO.
Hallam says, 'Politian was placed in the chair of Greek and Latin eloquence
at Florence. It is beyond controversy that he stands at the head
of that class in the fifteenth century'.
POLO, MARCO. b. 1254, d. 1324. Venetian traveller.
THE MOST NOBLE AND FAMOUS TRAVELS
OF MARCUS PAULUS ... INTO THE EAST
PARTES OF THE WORLD. Tr. [by J. P. Frampton].
1579.
POLYBIUS. b. 205, d. 123 B.C. Greek historian.
THE HYSTORIES OF ... POLYBIUS: DISCOURSING
OF THE WARRES BETWIXT THE
ROMANES AND THE CARTHAGINENSES. Englished
by C. W.(atson) Whereunto is annexed an
abstract compendiously coarsted out of the life and
worthy acts, perpetrate by King Henry the fift. 1568.
PONSARD, F. b. 1824, d. 1867. French dramatist.
CHARLOTTE CORDAY (1850).
LUCRECE (1843). Tr. [Sir A. Rumbold] 1848.
A SON OF THE SOIL (Play). Tr. 1850.
ULYSSES. Tr. H. B. Farnie. [1890.]
PONTOPIDDAN, H. Scandinavian writer.
THE APOTHECARY'S DAUGHTER. Tr. G.
Nielsen, 1889.
THE PROMISED LAND. Tr. Mrs. E. Lucas,
1896.
EMANUEL; or, CHILDREN OF THE SOIL.
Tr. Mrs. E. Lucas. [1896.]
PORTUGUESE ANTHOLOGIES. See Spanish.
PREVOST ABBÉ (ANTOINE FRANÇOIS PREVOST
D'EXILES). b. 1697, d. 1763. French writer.
DEAN OF COLERAINE. A moral History....
Tr. 1752.
HISTORY OF MARGARET OF ANJOU, QUEEN
OF ENGLAND. 2 vols. Tr. 1755.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MR.
CLEVELAND, NATURAL SON OF OLIVER
CROMWELL, Etc. A romance, (1733-40.) 1734.
MANON LESCAUT. (1733.) Tr. 1841.
MEMOIRS OF A MAN OF QUALITY. (1728.)
1738.
PROPERTIUS (SEXTUS AURELIUS PROPERTIUS).
b. 48, d. 14 B.C. Roman elegiac poet.
PROPERTII MONOBIBLOS: or THAT BOOK
OF THE ELEGIES OF PROPERTIUS ENTITLED
CYNTHIA. Tr. 1782.
PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER S. b. 1799, d. 1837.
Russian poet.
THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER.... Tr. ... by
J. F. Hanstein, 1859.
EUGENE ONEGIN: a novel in verse (1828).
Tr. by Lieut-Col. Spalding, 1881.
MARIE: a Story of Russian Love. Tr. 1877.
POEMS. Tr. by Ivan Panin, 1889.
PROSE TALES. Tr. by T. Keane, 1894.
THE QUEEN OF SPADES, AND OTHER
STORIES, 1892.
RUSSIAN ROMANCES [consisting of Miscellaneous
Tales]. Tr. by Mrs. J. Telfer, 1875.
THE TALISMAN. [Tr. by G. Borrow], 1835.
QUEVEDO (QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS DE). b. 1580,
d. 1645. Spanish author and satirist.
[1] BUSCON THE WITTY SPANIARD, WITH
THE PROVIDENT KNIGHT (1626). Tr. by J. D.
1657.
HELL REFORMED; or A GLASSE OF FAVOURITES,
IN A VISION. Tr. 1641.
THE VISIONS OF QUEVEDO, made English by
Sir R. L'Estrange. 1668.
NOVELS, faithfully englished; with the Marriage
of Belphegor. Tr. 1671.
QUEVEDO'S FORTUNE IN HER WITS. Tr. by
Stevens, 1697.
QUEVEDO'S COMICAL WORKS. Tr. by Capt.
Stevens, 1707.
'He is said to have resembled Voltaire in his talent for ridicule and his
versatility. He suffered much political persecution'.
[1] One of the 'picaresque or rogue' novels, of which 'Jack Wilton' by
Nash was the first example in English. It was later followed by 'Moll
Flanders' and 'Colonel Jack' by Defoe, the 'Joseph Andrews' of Fielding,
the 'Roderick Random' and 'Peregrine Pickle' of Smollett. In the nineteenth
century we find it imitated by Dumas in 'The Three Musketeers'
and also in some of the later minor novelists.
QUINTILIAN. b. 35, d. 100. Roman critic and
teacher of rhetoric.
HIS INSTITUTES OF ELOQUENCE.... With
notes critical and Explanatory. By Wm. Guthrie,
1756.
THE DECLAMATIONS OF QUINTILIAN. [Tr.
by Mr. Warr.] 1686.
RABELAIS, FRANÇOIS. b. 1483, d. 1553. French
satirist.
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE WORKS OF MR.
F. RABELAIS ... containing five books of the
Lives, etc., of Gargantua and his Sonne Pantagruel.
Tr. by Sir T. Urquhart. 2 parts (1532). 1653.
PANTAGRUEL'S PROGNOSTICATION, CERTAIN,
TRUE AND INFALLIBLE. Tr. by Democritus
Pseudomantis. [1620.]
THE WHOLE WORKS OF F. RABELAIS. Done
out of French by Sir T. Urchard, Knight, Mr. Motteau,
etc. 2 vols., 1708.
The precursor of Swift and Sterne, who imitated him.
'Rabelais is like no one else, but he contains elements which recall the
broader, comic side of Shakespeare, and others which anticipate the scathing
railleries of Swift. Sterne, apart from his natural affinities with the earlier
ecclesiastic, draws upon him liberally'.
RACINE, JEAN. b. 1639, d. 1699. French dramatic
poet.
ACHILLES; or IPHIGENIE IN AULIS. Tr. by
Mr. Boyer, 1700.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT. (1665.) Tr. [by
Ozell], 1714.
ANDROMACHE. A tragedy. (1667.) Tr. 1675.
ATHALIAH. A tragedy. Tr. by Wm. Duncombe,
1726.
BRITTANICUS. (1669.) Tr. [by Ozell], 1714.
THE DISTREST MOTHER. A tragedy. Written
by Mr. Phillips, 1712.
ESTHER; or, FAITH TRIUMPHANT. (1689.)
Tr. 1715.
THE LITIGANTS. Tr. [by Ozell], 1715.
THE SULTANESS: a tragedy. Tr. by Mr.
Johnson, 1717.
The dramas of Seneca served as type for tragedies of Racine, who vastly
excelled him. The works of R. influenced the post-Restoration dramatists.
RANKE, LEOPOLD VON. b. 1759, d. 1886. German
historian.
CIVIL WARS AND MONARCHY IN FRANCE
IN SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
Tr. 2 v., 1852.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY
OF THE POPES OF ROME DURING THE
16th AND 17th CENTURIES. (1834-1837.) Tr.
by S. Austin, 3 v. 1840.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND, PRINCIPALLY IN
THE 17th CENTURY. Tr. by C. W. Boase, etc.
6 vols. 1875.
HISTORY OF SERVIA AND THE SERVIAN
REVOLUTION. Tr. 1847.
HISTORY OF THE LATIN AND TEUTONIC
NATIONS. [1494-1514]. Tr. by P. A. Ashworth,
1887.
HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY;
Tr. by S. Austin, 1845-47.
OTTOMAN AND SPANISH EMPIRE IN SIXTEENTH
AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
Tr. 1843.
RAUF COILYEAR, ROLAND, OTUEL, etc. Ed.
S. J. Herrtage. E.E.T.S., 1882.
REAL, CÉSARVICHARD, ABBÉ DE SAINT. b. 1631,
d. 1692.
DON CARLOS. Tr. 1722.
A CONSPIRACY OF THE SPANIARDS
AGAINST THE STATE OF VENICE. Tr. 1675.
REINCKE FUCHS. c. 1150. See Reynard the Fox.
RENAN, JOSEPH ERNEST. b. 1823, d. 1892.
French historian and critic.
ANTICHRIST. Tr. with an Introduction by
W. G. Hutchison [1899].
CALIBAN. Tr. E. G. Vickery, 1896.
FUTURE OF SCIENCE. (1890.) Tr. 1891.
HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
Tr. C. B. Pitman and D. V. Bingham. 3 v. 1888-91.
LECTURES ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE
INSTITUTIONS, THOUGHTS AND CULTURE
OF ROME ON CHRISTIANITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Tr. C. Beard, 1880.
LIFE OF JESUS. Tr. 1867.
POETRY OF THE CELTIC RACES, AND
OTHER STUDIES. Tr. W. G. Hutchison, 1896.
RECOLLECTIONS OF MY YOUTH. Tr. C. B.
Pitman, and Revised by Madame Renan, 1883.
STUDIES OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY AND
CRITICISM. Tr. O. B. Frothingham, 1864.
RETZ, JEAN FRANÇOIS PAUL DE GONDI, CARDINAL
DE. b. 1614, d. 1679. French memoir
writer.
MEMOIRES OF THE CARDINAL DE RETZ,
CONTAINING THE PARTICULARS OF HIS
OWN LIFE.... 4 v. Tr. 1723.
REUTER, FRITZ. b. 1810, d. 1874. German poet.
IN THE YEAR 13: A TALE OF MECKLENBURG
LIFE. Tr. C. L. Lewes. [1867.]
SEEDTIME AND HARVEST; or, DURING
MY APPRENTICESHIP. Tr. 1867.
REYNARD THE FOX.
THE HISTORYE OF REYNART THE FOXE,
by me William Caxton, translated [from the Dutch]
into Englyssh in th' Abbey of Westmestre. 1481.
This prolonged beast-fable, which enjoyed an immense vogue throughout
Europe, provoked countless imitations.
RICHARD COUR DE LION, ROMANCE OF.
Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1509-28.
The character of Richard Coeur de Lion, as portrayed in the romance,
is happily compared by Ten Brink to John Bull.
RICHARD DE BURY (R. Aungervyle, of Bury).
b. 1287, d. 1345.
PHILOBIBLION. Eng. Tr. J. B. Inglis. 1832.
RICHARD OF DEVIZES. C. 1191.
DE REBUS GESTUS RICARDI PRIMI. Tr.
Chronicles of the Crusaders. Ed. J. Stevenson, 1838.
Tr. and Ed. Dr. Giles, 1841.
RICHARD ROLLE.
THE PRICKE OF CONSCIENCE. Ed. Morris,
1863.
RICHTER, JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH. b. 1763,
d. 1825. German writer.
FLOWER, FRUIT AND THORN PIECES;
(1796-97); or, the married life, death, and wedding
of the advocate of the poor (Firmian Stanislaws
Siebenkäs). Tr. by E. H. Noel, 2 vols., 1844.
HESPERUS. Tr. in Carlyle's Trs. from German, 1827.
LEVANA; a Treatise on Education (1807). Tr.
1848.
TITAN. Tr. C. D. Brooks. 2 v. 1863.
WILD OATS (Walt and Dalt) (1804-5). Tr. by
Eliza Lee, 1846.
ROBERT DE LA MENNAIS, H. F. See Lamennais,
F. R. de.
ROBERT MANNYNG OF BRUNNE. 1260-1345.
HANDLYNG SYNNE (1303). Ed. Furnivall,
Roxburghe Club, 1862. E.E.T.S., 1901.
ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER. C. 1300.
RHYMED CHRONICLE. Ed. W. Aldis Wright.
2 v. Rolls Ser., 1887.
ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER'S CHRONICLE.
2 v. Tr. T. Hearne, 1724.
'Its value as an independent historical authority almost confined to
incidents of Barons' Wars'.
ROGER OF HOVEDEN. d. 1201. English historian.
ANNALS OF ENGLISH HISTORY, comprising
the History of England and of other countries of
Europe from A.D. 732 to A.D. 1201. Tr. by H. T.
Riley, 2 v. 1853.
His 'History of England' is commended by Leland, Selden and others
for its fidelity. It is mentioned here as one of the sources of our modern
histories.
ROGER OF WENDOVER. d. 1236. English chronicler.
FLOWERS OF HISTORY (Flores Historiarum).
Comprising the History of England from the Descent
of the Saxons to A.D. 1235 formerly ascribed to
Matthew of Paris. 2 v. Tr. by J. A. Giles, 1849.
ROHAN, HENRI DE, DUKE DE ROHAN. b. 1579,
d. 1638. French memoir writer.
MEMOIRS (1610 to 1629) OF THE DUKE OF
ROHAN. Tr. G. Bridges, 1660.
A DECLARATION OF THE DUKE OF ROHAN
... CONTAINING THE JUSTNES OF REASONS
AND MOTIVES WHICH HAVE OBLIGED HIM
TO IMPLORE THE ASSISTANCE OF THE KING
OF GREAT BRITAINE.... Tr. 1628.
A TREATISE OF THE INTEREST OF THE
PRINCES AND STATES OF CHRISTENDOME....
Tr. H. H[unt], 1641.
ROLAND, SONG OF. Tr. by J. O'Hagan, 1880.
A hero celebrated in romances of chivalry, was supposed to have been
a nephew of Charlemagne. He was killed at the Battle of Roncesvalles,
778.
THE SONG OF ROLAND, AS CHANTED BEFORE
THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS.... Tr.
Mrs. Marsh, 1854.
ROLANDSLIED. 12th century. German poem.
ROLAND: THE HISTORIE OF ORLANDO
FURIOSO ONE OF THE TWELUE PIERES OF
FRANCE, as it was plaid.... In prose and verse, by
R. Greene, 1594.
ROLLIN, CHARLES. b. 1661, d. 1741. French
historian.
HISTORY OF ROME (1738). 16 v. Tr. 1739.
ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIANS....
(1730-38). 12 v. Tr. 1734-38.
NEW THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION.
Tr. 1735.
HISTORY OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF
THE ANTIENTS. Tr. 1734.
METHOD OF TEACHING AND STUDYING
THE BELLES LETTRES. 4 v. 1734. Tr. 1740.
ROMANCE OF THE ROSE. By Guillaume de
Lorris and Jean de Meung.
THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE. Ed. by Dr.
Max Kaluza. [From the Glasgow MS. Published
by the Chaucer Soc. The first 1704 lines are probably
Chaucer's.] 1890.
[This was translated by Chaucer and some of his predecessors, and the
MS. of part of it is in existence.]
Chaucer and Gower borrowed freely from the 'Roman de la Rose'. This
romance was familiar in both France and England before Chaucer's time.
Wace and Benoît de Sainte-More written by Anglo-Normans.
It was the reading of this work that influenced the first efforts of Chaucer.
During the epoch which is called the Chaucerian, authors known and nameless
used the stock of mediaeval France as freely and as monotonously as
the French themselves.
RONSARD, PIERRE DE. b. 1524, d. 1585. Eminent
French poet.
Some translations from Ronsard will be found in 'Ronsard and La Pléiade',
by G. Wyndham, 1906.
Ronsard and Du Bellay are the two most important names of the
'Pléiade'. The followers of R., through the Italian school introduced
the 'classical' style of verse into England. 'The English poets also read
Du Bellay, who finally established the sonnet and at the same time served
as a pattern for English writers. One writer of the Ronsardist School, Du
Bartas, was a writer of real religious conviction, and his "Semaine" or
"Week of Creation", translated by Sylvester, gained no small currency in
England'.
ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES. b. 1712, d. 1778.
Philosopher and eminent writer.
THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU (Six
books only) with the reverie of a solitary walker.
(1766-). Tr. 1783.
Complete Edition (12 books and letters). Tr. 1790.
ELOISA: a series of original letters. (1760.)
Tr. 1761.
EMILIUS; or AN ESSAY ON EDUCATION.
(1762.) Tr. by Mr. Nugent, 1763.
A DISCOURSE TO WHICH THE PRIZE WAS
ADJUDGED BY THE ACADEMY OF DIJON ...
on this question ... whether the re-establishment of
Arts and Sciences has contributed to purify our
morals (1749). Tr. by R. Wynne, 1752.
DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGIN AND FOUNDATIONS
OF THE INEQUALITY OF MANKIND.
(1753.) 1762.
LETTERS ON THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANY.
Tr. by Thos. Martyn. (1766.) 1785.
MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. Tr. 1767.
PROJECT FOR PERPETUAL PEACE. Tr. 1761.
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT. (1762). Tr. 1763.
VARIOUS WORKS. Letter to D'Alembert on
the Effects of Theatrical Entertainments on mankind.
Tr. 1759.
R., whether in a novel or in his 'Confessions', is the first writer in modern
Europe to expatiate upon inanimate nature in connexion with the feelings.
Affected English poetry in the early nineteenth century.
'How much of the "Nature Worship" of Wordsworth and his age may
be due to this example can hardly be estimated, but the name of R. was a
familiar one in England, and by him was sown much of the seed which our
own revivalists watered'.
'The works of Rousseau have exercised a direct and uncommon influence
upon English literature, which it is hard to define. There is no doubt he
is the "Father of modern democracy"' (Prof. Lowell).
RUNEBERG, J. L. b. 1804, d. 1877. Swedish poet.
LYRICAL SONGS AND EPIGRAMS. Tr.
Magnusson and Palmer, 1878.
NADESCHDA. Tr. Marie A. Brown, 1889.
RUSSIAN ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS. Poetical,
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Traditional Literature.
BAIN, ROBERT NISBET. Tr. COSSACK FAIRY
TALES AND FOLK TALES. 1894.
CHODSKO, ALEX. FAIRY TALES OF THE
SLAV PEASANTS AND HERDSMEN. Tr. and
illustrated by E. J. Harding, 1896.
CURTIN, J. Tr. MYTHS AND FOLK TALES OF
THE RUSSIANS, SLAVS AND MAGYARS. 1890.
BOWRING, SIR J. Tr. SPECIMENS OF RUSSIAN
POETS. 1821.
POLEVOI, P. N. RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES.
Tr. by R. N. Bain, 1893.
RALSTON, WM. R. S. Tr. RUSSIAN FOLK
TALES. 1873.
RALSTON, W. R. S. Tr. SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN
PEOPLE. 1872.
WILSON, C. T. Tr. RUSSIAN LYRICS IN
ENGLISH VERSE. 1887.
SADI (SHEIKH MUSLIH ADDIN). b. 1184, d. 1292.
THE GÛLISTÂN OF MUSLE-HADDEEN
SHAIK SADY OF SHEERAZ. Tr. by Francis
Gladwin, 1806.
THE PERSIAN AND ARABICK WORKS OF
SADÉE. Ed. by J. H. Harrington, 1791-5.
SELECT FABLES FROM GÛLISTÂN, or THE
RED OF ROSES. Tr. by S. Sulivan, 1774.
SAGAS.
'The Icelandic Sagas'—the prose histories of the fortunes of the great
Icelandic houses—are the last, and also the finest, expression and record of
the spirit and the ideas belonging properly to the Germanic race in its own
right, and not derived from Rome or Christendom'.
An immense imaginative literature is growing up around the Sagas. To
mention only a few prominent writers who have received their inspiration
from these sources, we have, Baring-Gould in 'Grettir the Outlaw' (1889),
the works of Henty and Ballantyne, R. Leighton's 'Olaf the Glorious'
(1894), Du Chaillu's 'Olaf the Viking' (1893), Kingsley's 'Hereward', etc.,
Longfellow, W. Morris in 'Sigurd' and 'Earthly Paradise', and Arnold's
'Balder Dead', etc., etc.
BANDED MEN, THE. Tr. by Wm. Morris and
Eirikr Magnússon. Saga Library. 1890.
EDDA SAEMUNDAR. Tr. by B. Thorpe, 1866.
[Mallet's 'Northern Antiquities' contains a tr. of Edda Saemundar
1851.]
EDDA SAEMUNDAR. Selections from. Tr. by
Wm. Morris, 1877.
[Some of the songs from the above are tr. by Morris in his 'Sigurd the
Volsung' and 'Niblungs'.]
EDDA STURLUSONART. [The Prose of Younger
Edda.] Tr. by Sir G. W. Dasent, 1842.
EGILS SKALLAGRIMSSON SAGA. [10th
century.] Tr. by Rev. W. C. Green, 1893. [An
Icelandic family history of the 9th and 10th centuries.]
Ranks high among the sagas of action and adventure. Gives a lively
account of the first settlers in Iceland.
EYRBYGGJA SAGA. Tr. by Sir W. Scott. Tr.
in P. H. Mallet's Northern Antiquities, 1847.
Tr. also by Wm. Morris and [1] Eirikr Magnússon (1892), who describe it
as 'a mixture of a saga, or dramatically told tale, and a chronicle record
of events outside its aim and purpose'. Period, 884-1031; principal events
between 986-98. Written between 1230-60, according to Vigfússon.
'Unquestionably the oldest of all the sagas of Iceland'.
[1] Includes also a tr. of Heiôarviga Saga, 'Story of the Heath-Slayings'.
GISLI THE OUTLAW, STORY OF. Tr. by Sir
G. W. Dasent, 1866.
GRETTIR SAGA. Tr. by Eirikr Magnússon and
Wm. Morris. 1869.
HAMLET IN ICELAND. Tr. by I. Gollancz,
1898.
'Of importance chiefly on account of the use Shakespeare made of another
version of the same story. The present version belongs to the 16th
or the early 17th century, the major part of it having been derived from
Saxo-Grammaticus, the Danish historiographer (late 12th century), and
remodelled under the influence of popular folk tales, Carlovingian, and
Arthurian romances, and the stories of Tamburlane'.
HEIMSKRINGLA, or CHRONICLES OF THE
KINGS OF NORWAY. Tr. from the Icelandic by
S. Laing, 1842, new Ed. by Anderson, 1889, 4 v.
See also in the Saga Library by Morris and Magnússon,
4 v. 1892-1906.
[Consists chiefly of historical sagas, 12th cent. An abridgement is contained
in Carlyle's 'Early Kings of Norway', 1875.]
HEN THORIR. Tr. by Wm. Morris and Eirikr
Magnusson. 1890. Saga Library.
HOWARD THE HALT. Tr. by Wm. Morris and
Eirikr Magnusson. 1890. Saga Library.
KORMAKS SAGA: The Life and Death of
Cormac the Skald. Tr. by W. G. Collingwood and
Stéfannson, 1902.
LANDNAMA BÓC. [Book of the Taking of the
Land.] Tr. by Thomas Ellwood, 1894.
LAXDAELA SAGA. Probably first put together
about 13th century. Tr. by Muriel A. C. Press [1900].
LILJA 'The Lily' [Religious poem of the 4th
century.] Ed. and Tr. by Eirikr Magnusson, 1870.
LUDBROC, DEATH SONG OF: Tr. with notes,
1887.
NIALS SAGA. The Story of Burnt Njal. 970-1014.
2 v. Tr. by Sir G. W. Dasent, 1861.
Southern Saga. Considered the greatest of the Sagas, whether in the
national scope of its action, the beauty and distinction of the characters,
or in the pathos and special grandeur of the narrative.
OLAF TRYGGVASON. The Saga of, who
reigned over Norway, A.D. 995 to A.D. 1000. Tr. by
J. Sephton, 1898.
Compiled about the middle of the 13th century.
OLD NORSE SAGAS. Tr. by E. S. Cappel, 1882.
ORKNEYINGA SAGA (History of the Men of
Orkney). Ed. by J. Anderson. Tr. by J. A. Higaltalin,
and G. Goudie, 1873.
ORKNEYINGA SAGA. Magnus Saga; with
additions from Flatey's Book. [xiv. century]. Ed.
by G. Vigfusson, 1888.
STURLA THE LAWMAN'S LIVES OF KING
HACON AND MAGNUS. [xiii. century], with
Glossaries. Ed. by G. Vigfusson, 1888.
STURLA THE LAWMAN'S LIVES OF KING
HACON AND MAGNUS, [xiii. century], with
Glossaries, v. 3-4. Tr. by G. W. Dasent.
THOMAS SAGA. 2 v. with Tr. notes and glossary,
Ed. and Tr. by Eirikr Magnússon, 1875-84.
THORSTEIN VIKING'S SON. See Viking Tales
of the North. Tr. by R. B. Anderson, 1877.
THREE NORTHERN LOVE STORIES. Tr. by
Eirikr Magnússon and Wm. Morris, 1875.
THROND OF GATE. THE TALE OF. Commonly
called Færeyinga Saga. Tr. by F. York
Powell.
Written probably about 1230.
VIGA GLUM SAGA, 970-990, with notes. Tr. by
Sir Ed. Head, 1866. [Northern Saga.]
'One of the earliest sagas'.
VIKING TALES OF THE NORTH. Tr. by
R. B. Anderson, 1877.
[Tr. of the sagas of Thorstein Viking's son and Fridthiof the Bold; with
G. W. Stevens' tr. of Tegnérs Fridthiofs saga.]
VÖLSUNGA SAGA. Tr. by Eirikr Magnússon
and Wm. Morris, 1876.
Sagas, Folk-Tales, etc., Anthologies, Collections.
ANDERSON, R. B. Tr. NORSE MYTHOLOGY
the religion of our Forefathers, 1875.
[Contains all the myths of the Eddas systematized and interpreted
with notes and vocabulary.]
ANDERSON, RASMUS B. THE FOLKLORE
OF NORWAY. [1895.]
ARNASON, Jon. Ed. ICELANDIC LEGENDS.
Tr. Powell and Magnússon. 2 ser. 1862-65.
ASBJORNSEN. POPULAR TALES FROM THE
NORSE. Translated by H. L. Brækstad. 1881.
[Trs. from the "Norske Folkeeventyr" 1842.
Collected by Asbjornsen and Mol. Tr. by G. W.
Dasent, 1859.]
—— ROUND THE YULE LOG: Norwegian Folk
and Fairy Tales. 1882.
[A re-translation, by Brækstad, of the collection originally tr. by Dasent
in 1859.]
—— TALES FROM THE FJELD. A record of
popular tales from the Norse of P. C. Asbjörnsen, 1874.
[From the Norske Huldreeventyr of Folkesagn, 1845-8; and Folkventyr,
1871.]
BUCHANAN, R. Tr. BALLAD STORIES OF
THE AFFECTIONS. 1866.
BUSHBY, MRS. Tr. THE DANES SKETCHED
BY THEMSELVES. A Series of popular stories by
the best Danish authors. 3 v. 1864.
CORPUS POETICUM BOREALE. Ed. by G.
Vigfússon and F. York Powell, 2 v. 1883.
[An admirable text and translation of the whole body of ancient Icelandic
legends and lays, to the 13th cent.]. 'An epoch-making book'.
DASENT, SIR G.W. POPULAR TALES FROM
THE NORSE [tr. of Asbjörnsen]. Ed. 1859.
See above under Asbjörnsen.
DASENT, Sir G. W. TALES FROM THE
FJELD. Tr. 1874.
EIVIND, R. Ed. and Tr. FINNISH LEGENDS,
1893.
[Tr. of thirty-eight stories from the 'Kalevala'.]
GRIMM, JACOB. TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY.
Tr. by J. S. Stallybras, 3 v. and suppl. 1-3, 1879-89.
[The great standard work on Teutonic (Germ., Scan., and English) mythology,
first published in 1835.]
MURRAY, E. C. GRENVILLE. Tr. NATIONAL
SONGS AND LEGENDS OF ROUMANIA. 1859.
POWELL, F. Y. and G. MAGNUSSON. Tr.
ICELANDIC LEGENDS. Ed. by Ion Arnasson.
1864-66.
PRIOR, R. C. Tr. ANCIENT DANISH BALLADS.
3. v. 1860.
RALSTON, W. R. S. Tr. SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN
PEOPLE. 1872.
RINK, HENRY. Tr. TALES AND TRADITIONS
OF THE ESKIMO. 1875.
STEPHENS, G. and H. CAVALLIUS. Ed. OLD
NORSE FAIRY TALES. Tr. 1882.
THORPE, BENJ. NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY.
3 v. 1852.
VICARY, J. F. Tr. THE STORK'S NEST
AND OTHER TALES. Tr. 1886.
READINGS FROM THE DANE: SHORT
STORIES. Tr. 1886.
YULE-TIDE STORIES. Scandinavian and North
German. 1853.
SAINT PIERRE, BERNARD DE. b. 1737, d. 1814.
French writer.
THE INDIAN COTTAGE. Tr. by E. A. Kendal,
1791.
PAUL AND VIRGINIA; an Indian story. 2 v.
1789.
PAUL AND VIRGINIA. Tr. by H. M. Williams,
1796.
STUDIES OF NATURE. Tr. by H. Hunter, 1796.
'Paul and Virginia' is pronounced by a French critic as not only the
chef d'œuvre of the author, but one of the chefs d'œuvre of the language.
Has been largely imitated by English writers.
ST. REAL. See Real.
ST. TERESA. See Teresa, St.
SAINT SIMON, LOUIS DE ROUVROY, DUKE DE.
b. 1675, d. 1755. French memoir writer.
MÉMOIRES. ENGLISH VERSION BY BAYLE
SAINT JOHN. 4 v. 1857.
SAINTE-BEUVE. C. A. b. 1804, d. 1869. French
critic.
DARU (Causeries du Lundi, vol. 9). Tr. by G.
Masson, 1878.
ENGLISH PORTRAITS FROM THE C. DU L.
Tr. 1875.
MONDAY CHATS, selected and translated by W.
Matthews, 1877.
Matthew Arnold was an avowed disciple of S.-B.
SALLUST (CAIUS SALLUSTUS CRISPUS). b. 86,
d. 34 B.C. Roman historian.
CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE, written by
Constantius, Felicius, Durantinus, and Tr. by
Thomas Paynell: with the Historye of Jugurth,
written by the famous Roman Sallust, and Tr. by
A. Barcklaye, 1557.
THE FAMOUS CRONYCLE OF THE WARRE
WHICH THE ROMAYNS HAD AGAYNST JUGURTH
USURPER OF THE KYNGDOME OF
NUMIDY. Tr. by Syr A. Barclay [1520].
THE TWO MOST WORTHY AND NOTABLE
HISTORIES ... (viz.) the Conspiracie of Catiline,
undertaken against the government of the Senate
of Rome and the Warre which Jugurth for many
years maintained against the same state. [Tr. from
the Latin by T. Heywood]. 1608-9.
SAND, GEORGE (AMANTINE LUCILE AURORE
DUPIN, 'BARONNE' DUDEVANT). b. 1804,
d. 1876.
ANTONIA. Tr. V. Vaughan, 1870.
BAGPIPERS, THE. Tr. K. P. Wormeley, 1890.
CESARINE DIETRICH. Tr. E. Stanwood, 1871.
CONSUELO. (1842.) Tr. by F. G. Shaw, 1847.
THE COUNTESS OF RUDOLSTADT. [Sequel.]
(1843.) Tr. by F. G. Shaw, 1847.
DEVIL'S POOL. Tr. 1861.
ENCHANTED LAKE. Tr. 1850.
FRANCIS THE WAIF. Tr. 1848.
HAUNTED MARSH. Tr. 1847.
IMPRESSIONS AND REMINISCENCES. Tr.
H. K. Adams, 1877.
INDIANA. (1832). Tr. 1850.
JACQUES. Tr. A. Blackwell. 2 v. 1847.
JEALOUSY, ETC. Tr. [1870].
THE JOURNEYMAN JOINER. (Le Compagnon
du tour de France, 1841.) Tr. 1849.
THE HAUNTED MARSH. (La Mare au Diable,
1846). Tr. 1848.
LADY BLAKE'S LOVE LETTERS, etc. Tr.
[from Lavinia] P. McCarthy, 1884.
LETTERS. Tr. R. L. de Beaufort, 1885.
LITTLE FADETTE. (La Petite Fadette, 1848.)
Tr. 1849.
MARQUIS DE VILLEMER. Tr. R. Keeler, 1871.
MAUPRAT. (1837.) Tr. 1840.
THE MILLER OF ANGIBAULT. (1845.) Tr.
1847.
MOLIÈRE. Tr. 1867.
MOSAIC WORKERS; THE ORCS. Tr. E. A. A.,
1844.
MY SISTER JÉANNIE. Tr. S. R. Croker, 1874.
ROLLING STONE. Tr. 1871.
SNOW MAN. Tr. V. Vaughan, 1871.
TEVERINO. Tr. 1855.
TOWER OF PERCEMONT. Tr. 1877.
THE USCOQUE. Tr. J. Bauer. [1850.]
WINGS OF COURAGE. CLOUD SPINNER.
Tr. Mrs. Cockran. [1883.]
WORKS. Tr. M. M. Hays, E. A. Ashurst and
A. R. Larken. v. 1-6. 1847.
SANDEAU, LÉONARD S. JULES. b. 1811, d. 1883.
French novelist and dramatist.
CATHERINE. Tr. W. Robson, 1860.
MADELEINE. Tr. [1850].
THE HOUSE OF PENARVAN. Tr. Lady G.
Fullerton, 1878.
AWAKING. A Drama. Tr. [1873].
SEAGULL ROCK. Tr. R. Black, 1872.
SANNAZARO, GIACOMO. b. 1458, d. 1530. Italian
poet.
ARCADIA (1504). (No translation.)
Is said to be the original of Montemayor's dramas and of Sidney's
'Arcadia'.
SAPPHO. 610 B.C. Lyric poet.
ODE TO VENUS (Greek and English). Tr. 1799.
HYMN TO VENUS, etc. Tr. 1748.
WORKS OF SAPPHO. Tr. by F. Fawkes, 1813.
Herrick and Suckling modelled their poems upon Sappho's verse.
The French and Italian lyrists imitated Catullus and Horace, who were
influenced by Sappho and Anacreon.
See also Anacreon.
SARDOU, VICTORIEN. b. 1831, d. 1908. French
dramatist.
DORA. Tr. [1877].
FEDORA. Tr. [H. Merivale]. [1883].
FERNANDE. Tr. [1883].
FRIENDS OR FOES. Tr. See in Lacy's Ed.
of Plays, 1850.
GEORGETTE. Tr. 1886.
INHABITANTS OF PONTARCY. Tr. [1878].
LET US BE DIVORCED. [From Divorçons.]
Tr. [1881].
MADAME SANS-GÊNE. Tr. [1894.]
PROGRESS. Tr. [1893].
ROBESPIERRE. Tr. 1899.
SCRAP OF PAPER. Tr. Lacy's Ed. of Plays,
[1850].
THEODORA. Tr. 1885.
SAWLES WARDE. Anon.
Ed. text and tr. R. Morris, 'Old English Homilies'.
E.E.T.S.
SCARRON, PAUL. b. 1610, d. 1660. French comic
writer.
[1] COMICAL ROMANCE; or, A FACETIOUS
HISTORY OF STROLLING STAGE PLAYERS
(1651-7). 1676.
TYPHON; or, THE GYANT'S WAR WITH THE
GODS. (1664.) Tr. [by John Phillips], 1665.
THE WHOLE COMICAL WORKS OF M. SCARRON.
Tr. by Thos. Brown, Savage and others, 1700.
[1] 'The earliest faithful picture of French provincial life, and, in its
individual portraiture, a forerunner of the modern novel'.
SCANDINAVIAN ANTHOLOGIES. See Sagas: Collections.
SCHEFFEL, JOSEPH VICTOR. b. 1826. German
poet.
EKKEHARD. Tr. 1872.
MOUNTAIN PSALMS. Tr. Mrs. F. Brünnow, etc.
1882.
THE TRUMPETER OF SÄKKINGEN. Tr.
Mrs. F. Brünnow. [1884.]
SCHERER, EDMOND H. A. b. 1815, d. 1889.
French critic.
ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE REFORMED
CHURCH IN FRANCE. Tr. 1845.
DEMOCRACY AND FRANCE. Tr. F. M. D.
Mahony, 1884.
ESSAYS ON ENGLISH LITERATURE. Tr.
from 'Etudes critiques sur la littérature contemporaine',
by G. Saintsbury, 1891.
SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH F. b. 1759,
d. 1805. The second of the two great national
poets of Germany.
THE BRIDE OF MESSINA (1803). Tr. by G.
Irvine, 1837.
CABAL AND LOVE (1783). Tr. by C. Colombine,
1795.
CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHILLER AND
GOETHE, 1794-1805. Tr. by G. H. Calvert, 1849.
DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN. Tr. by S. T.
Coleridge, 1800.
DEMETRIUS. Tr. by C. Hodges, 1836.
DON CARLOS (1784-87). Tr. by Tytler, Lord
Woodhouselee? 1798.
FIESCO. (1783.) Tr. by G. H. N. and J. C. S.
[Noehden and Stoddart], 1796.
THE GHOST SEER, or APPARITIONIST. An
interesting fragment found among the papers of
Count O.... [Told by D. Boileau], 1795.
HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR.
(1788-). Tr. by Captn. Blaquiere, 1799.
MAID OF ORLEANS (1801). Tr. by J. E.
Drinkwater, 1835.
MARY STUART. (1800.) Tr. 1801.
THE NEPHEW AS UNCLE. Tr. by G. S.
Harris, 1856.
PHILOSOPHICAL AND ÆSTHETIC LETTERS
AND ESSAYS. Tr. by J. Weiss, 1845.
POEMS AND BALLADS. Tr. by Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton, 1844.
POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS FROM THE
GERMAN, INCLUDING SCHILLER'S FIGHT
WITH THE DRAGON, TRIP TO THE FORGE,
SONG OF THE BELL, etc. [By Sir Wm. Gomme]
1821.
POEMS FROM THE GERMAN. Tr. by G. T.
Gallop, 1823.
REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS. Tr. by
Thos. Horne, 1807.
THE ROBBERS. (1782.) Tr. by [A. C. Tytler,
Lord Woodhouslee], 1792.
SONG OF THE BELL. Tr. by Lord F. L. Gower,
1823.
SEMELE. Tr. by C. Hodges, 1835.
TURANDOT; PRINCESS OF INDIA. Tr. by
A. T. Gurney, 1836.
WALLENSTEIN. THE PICCOLOMINI, OR THE
FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN (1798-9). Tr.
by S. T. Coleridge. 1800.
WILLIAM TELL. (1804.) Tr. 1825.
SCHLEGEL, CARL WILHELM VON. b. 1767,
d. 1845. German scholar and writer.
AESTHETICS AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.
Tr. E. S. Millington. 1849.
LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE:
ANCIENT AND MODERN. Tr. Lockhart,
1818.
PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. Tr. 1835.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY
OF LANGUAGE IN A COURSE OF LECTURES.
Tr. by A. J. W. Morrison, 1846.
SCHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR. b. 1788, d. 1860.
German pessimist philosopher.
ON BOOKS AND READING—in his Religion.
Tr. 1889.
SELECT ESSAYS. Tr. by G. Droppers and C. A.
P. Dachsel, 1881.
SELECTED ESSAYS. Tr. by E. B. Bax, 1891.
TWO ESSAYS: (1) On the fourfold root of the
principal of sufficient Reason. (2) On the Will in
Nature. Told by J. Frauenstadt, 1852.
THE WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA. (1819.)
Tr. by Haldane and Kemp, 1883-6.
SCHOPENHAUER SERIES. Tr. by T. Bailey
Saunders. 5 vols. 1890-3.
SCHOPENHAUER SERIES:—
1. WISDOM OF LIFE. Tr. 1890.
2. COUNSELS AND MAXIMS. 1890.
3. RELIGION: A DIALOGUE. Tr. 1889.
4. STUDIES IN PESSIMISM. Tr. 1890.
Including the famous essay on women.
5. ART OF LITERATURE, and other Essays. 1891.
SCRIBE, AUGUSTIN EUGÈNE. b. 1791, d. 1861.
French comic dramatist.
ASMODEUS, THE LITTLE DEMON. Adapted
[1850].
BLACK DOMINO; or, A NIGHT'S ADVENTURE
(Le Domino Noir 1837). Tr. 1837.
THE FAVOURITE OPERA ... THE CROWN
DIAMONDS (Les Diamants de la Couronne, 1840).
Tr. [1840].
THE HUGUENOTS. Tr. [1843].
MASANIELLO; or, THE DUMB GIRL OF
PORTICI. Tr. 1843.
A PECULIAR POSITION: A farce. Tr. by
J. R. Planche, 1837.
ROBERT THE DEVIL. (Robert le Diable.)
Tr. [1832].
THE SOMNAMBULIST. (La Sonnambula 1831.)
Tr. [1850].
SCUDERY, MADELEINE DE. b. 1607, d. 1701.
French writer and novelist.
[*] ALMAHIDE; or THE CAPTIVE QUEEN. Tr.
by John Philips, 1677.
[*] AMARYLLIS TO TITYRUS. A Witty and
pleasant Novel. Tr. 1681.
[*] ZELINDA. Englished by J. D. 1676.
[*] These appeared originally under the name of her brother, G. de Scudery.
ARTAMENES; or, THE GRAND CYRUS. Tr.
by F. G. 5 vols. 1653-5.
CLEILA. (1654-60.) Tr. by John Davies. 5 v.
1656-61.
IBRAHIM; or, THE ILLUSTRIOUS BASSA.
(1641.) Tr. by Henry Cogan, 1652.
The interminable pseudo-romantic stories of M. de S.—the 'Grand Cyrus'
or 'Clélie'—were exploited by Robert Boyle (Earl of Surrey), Sir Geo.
Mackenzie, J. Crowne the dramatist, etc., as well as by Dryden and other
post-Restoration dramatists.
SENECA, LUCIUS ANNÆUS. b. 4 B.C., d. 65 A.D.
Roman stoic philosopher and dramatist.
THE EYGHT TRAGEDIES ... Entituled Agamemnon.
Tr. by J. Studley, 1566.
THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDIE OF ŒDIPUS.
Tr. by A. Nevyle. [In verse.] 1563.
MORALS. Tr. by T. Lodge, 1614.
THE REMEDYES AGAYNST ALL CASUALL
CHAUNCES ... A dialogue between Sensualyte
and Reason. Tr. by E. Wyttynton, 1547.
THE SECONDE TRAGEDIE OF SENECA
ENTITLED THYESTES. Tr. by J. Heywood.
[In verse.] 1560.
THE SEVENTH TRAGEDY OF S., ENTITLED
MEDIA: Tr. by J. Studley, 1566.
THE SIXT TRAGEDY OF L. A. S. ENTITULED
TROAS [ ... In Verse]. Tr. by J. Heywood, 1559.
SENECA, HIS TENNE TRAGEDIES. Tr. into
English. [Hercules Furens, Thyestes, and Troas.]
Tr. by J. Heywood; Œdipus, by A. Nevile; Hippolytus,
Medea, Agamemnon and Hercules Oetaeus
by J. Studley; Octavia by T. Nuce and Thebais by
T. Newton, 1581.
THE WORKS OF L. A. SENECA, CONCERNING
BENFYTING, THAT IS TO SAY, THE DOING,
RECYVING AND REQUYTING OF GOOD
TURNES. Tr. by A. Golding, 1578.
Supposititious Works.
THE FORME AND RULE OF HONEST LYVYNGE.
Tr. by R. Whyttynton, 1546.
MYROUR OF GLASSE OF MANERS AND
WYSEDOME. Tr. by R. Whyttynton, 1547.
OCTAVIA. Tr. by T. Nuce, 1566.
Addison's 'Cato' was largely influenced through French sources by
Seneca.
Sackville sought for tragic models in Seneca.
Seneca had great influence on Early Elizabethan drama. The best
imitation of his style is Addison's 'Cato'.
Seneca's rhetorical plays were the model for the early Elizabethan dramatists,
but Shakespearean superseded this influence.
SERVIAN ANTHOLOGIES. See Anthologies, General.
SEVYN SAGES OF ROME. (Collection of Tales).
Cir. 1300.
Ed. Wright, Percy Soc. 1846. Weber, Metrical
Romances, 1810.
THE SEVIN SEAGES, translatit out of Prois
in Scottis Meter be John Rolland, 1578.
SÉVIGNÉ, MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL,
MARQUISE DE. b. 1626, d. 1696. French
writer.
COURT SECRETS ... extracted from the Letters
of M. de S. Tr. 1727.
LETTERS FROM THE MARCHIONESS DE
SÉVIGNÉ TO HER DAUGHTER, THE COUNTESS
DE GRIGNAN. (1st ed. 1726.) 10 vols. 1764.
M. de Sévigné has been pronounced the most admirable letter-writer
that ever lived. Her style has been largely copied.
SHI KING: or, BOOK OF ODES. Chinese.
THE SHIH KING, or BOOK OF POETRY.
(Told by J. Legge.) The Sacred Books of the East,
vol. 3, 1879.
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'.
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE ANTHOLOGIES:
COLLECTIONS. Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales
and Traditional Literature.
BUSK, MISS R. H. Tr. PATRAÑAS, or
SPANISH STORIES, LEGENDARY AND TRADITIONAL,
1870.
COELHO, F. A. Ed. TALES OF OLD LUSITANIA.
Tr. H. Monteiro, 1885.
KENNEDY, J. Tr. MODERN POETS AND
POETRY OF SPAIN. 1852.
LEWIS, G. Tr. THE CID BALLADS. 1883.
LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON. Tr. ANCIENT
SPANISH BALLADS. Historical and Romantic.
1821.
MEXIA, PEDRO (Silva de Varia Lecion) THE
FORESTE, or COLLECTION OF HISTORIES
NO LESSE PROFITABLE, THAN PLEASANT
AND NECESSARIE, DOONE out of Frenche into
Englishe, by Thomas Fortescue, 1571.
[The genius of these tales may be discerned from their history. The
book is said to have been written in Spanish by P. de M., thence tr. into
Italian, thence into French by Claude Cruget, and lastly from French into
Eng. by F.]
MIDDLEMORE, MRS. S. G. Tr. SPANISH
LEGENDARY TALES. 1885.
MONTEIRO, MARIANA. Tr. GATHERED GEMS
FROM SPANISH AUTHORS. 1878. LEGENDS
AND POPULAR TALES FROM THE BASQUE
PEOPLE. [1886.]
MIDDLEMORE, S. G. Tr. SPANISH LEGENDARY
TALES. 1885.
ORMSBY, JOHN. Tr. POEMS OF THE CID.
1879.
PEDROSO, Z. Tr. PORTUGUESE FOLK-TALES
with introduction by Ralston, 1882.
ROSCOE, THOS. Tr. SPANISH NOVELISTS.
3 v. 1832.
SOUTHEY, R. Tr. AMADIS OF GAUL. 1872.
SOUTHEY, R. Tr. CHRONICLES OF THE
CID [Prose]. 1808.
STRETTELL, ALMA. Tr. SPANISH AND
ITALIAN FOLK-SONGS. 1887.
SPIELHAGEN, FRIEDRICH. b. 1829, German
novelist.
BREAKING OF THE STORM. Tr. S. Stephenson.
3 vols. 1877.
HOHENSTEIN. Tr. 1870.
PROBLEMATIC CHARACTERS, Tr. S. de
Vere, 1869.
QUISISANA. Tr. 1880.
SKELETON IN THE HOUSE. Tr. J. Marsden,
1881.
THROUGH NIGHT TO LIGHT. Tr. 1870.
[Sequel to Problematic Characters.]
ULTIMO. Tr. [1874].
VILLAGE COQUETTE. Tr. J. L. Laird, 1875.
SPINOZA, BENEDICT DE. b. 1632, d. 1677. Pantheistic
philosopher.
DISCOURSES TO PROVE THE LIBERTY OF
PHILOSOPHIZING, etc. (Tractatus Theologico-politicus),
1689.
THE ETHICS OF BENEDICTUS DE SPINOZA
demonstrated after the method of geometers and
divided into five parts. (Ethica Ordine Geometrico
Demonstrata.) [Tr. by D. D. S.] 1876.
MIRACLES NO VIOLATION OF THE LAW OF
NATURE. Tr. 1683.
[This is the 6th Chapter of the Tractatus.]
SPINOZO REVIVED: or ... THE RIGHTS OF
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 1709.
Treatise partly Theological and partly Political.
STAAL, VON (MARGUERITE JEANNE CORDIER)
BARONESS. b. 1693, d. 1750. French writer.
MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE STAHL (1755).
Tr. 1759.
STAËL-HOLSTEIN, DE (ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE
NECKER) BARONNE, commonly called Madame
de Staël. b. 1766, d. 1817.
DELPHINE (1802). 4 v. Tr. 1803.
CORINNE, or ITALY (1807). Tr. 1807.
LETTERS ON THE WORKS AND CHARACTER
OF J. ROUSSEAU. Tr. 1789.
TREATISE ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE
PASSIONS UPON THE HAPPINESS OF INDIVIDUALS
AND OF NATIONS, ILLUSTRATED
BY REFERENCE TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Tr. 1798.
TREATISE ON ANCIENT AND MODERN
LITERATURE.... Tr. 1803.
INFLUENCE OF LITERATURE UPON SOCIETY.
2 v. Tr. 1812.
ZULMA: AND OTHER TALES. Tr. 1813.
REFLECTIONS ON SUICIDE. Tr. 1813.
GERMANY. 3 v. Tr. 1813.
LETTERS AND REFLECTIONS OF PRINCE
DE LIGNY. Tr. 1814.
CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL
EVENTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Tr.
1819.
TEN YEARS EXILE. Tr. 1821.
STATIUS, PUBLIUS PAPINIUS. b. about 60 A.D.,
d. about 100 A.D. Roman poet.
THEBAID. (Epic of Thebes and its heroes.)
FIVE BOOKS OF THE THEBAIS OF P. STATIUS,
translated by Thomas Stephens, 1648.
ACHILLES. Howard, Sir R. Statius, his Achilleis
with annotations.... 1660.
SYLVÆ ET ACHILLEIS. Tr. by Stephens, 1648.
Modern critics prefer his 'Sylvae' to the 'Thebaid', the latter being
deficient in creative energy.
'Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" was derived from the "Thebaid" of S'.
'STEPNIAK'. Pseud. (SERGIUS MICHAEL DRAGOMANOFF).
b. 1841, d. 1895. Russian writer.
CAREER OF A NIHILIST. Tr. 1889.
UNDERGROUND RUSSIA (1881).
NIHILISM AS IT IS (1894).
KING STORK AND KING LOG. 2 v. Tr.
1895.
STINDE, DR. JULIUS. German novelist.
BUCHHOLZ FAMILY. 4 v. Tr. 1886.
THE BUCHHOLZES IN ITALY. Tr. H. F.
Powell, 1887.
WOODLAND TALES. Tr. E. Wright, 1887.
STRABO. Greek geographer. b. 64 B.C., d. 21 A.D.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO. Literally
translated by H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer. With
notes and a complete Index. 1854-56, 57.
THE ITINERARY OF GREECE, with a commentary
on Pausanius and S. 1810.
SUDERMANN, HERMANN. b. 1857. German
writer.
DAME CLARA.... Tr. B. Overbeck, 1891.
MAGDA (HEIMAT). Tr. C. E. A. Winslow,
1896.
REGINE (DER KATZENSTEG). Tr. H. E.
Miller, 1894.
SUE, MARIE-JOSEPH EUGÈNE. b. 1804, d. 1859.
French novelist.
THE COMMANDER OF MALTA. Tr. by A
Diosy, 1846.
THE MARQUIS OF LETORIÈRE. Tr. [1851].
MARTIN THE FOUNDLING. (1846.) Tr. 1847.
MATILDA ... (1841). Tr. by O. Rochford, 1845.
THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS. (Mystères de
Paris, 1842.) Tr. 1844.
MYSTERIES OF THE PEOPLE. (Les Mystères
du Peuple, 1849.) Tr. 1867.
THE NEGRO'S REVENGE. Tr. 1841.
THE PROTESTANT LEADER. (Jean Cavalier,
1840.) Tr. 1849.
THE WANDERING JEW. (Le Juif Errant,
1844-5.) Tr. 3 vols. 1844-5.
SUETONIUS, CAIUS SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS.
b. c. 70. Latin historian.
THE HISTORIE OF TWELVE CÆSARS, EMPEROURS
OF ROME. Tr. by P. Holland. Together
with a marginal glosse, and other brief annotations
thereupon. 1606.
LIVES OF THE EMINENT GRAMMARIANS.
Tr. by Alex Thomson, 1796.
LIVES OF THE EMINENT RHETORICIANS.
Tr. by Alex. Thomson, 1796.
SWEDENBORG, EMANUEL. b. 1688, d. 1772.
Swedish naturalist, mathematician and theosophist.
ANIMAL KINGDOM.... Tr. by J. G. Wilkinson,
1843-44.
APOCALYPSE REVEALED. Tr. 1791.
ARCANA CŒLESTIA; or HEAVENLY MYSTERIES
(1749-56). Tr. 12 vols. 1784-1806.
CONCERNING THE EARTHS IN OUR SOLAR
SYSTEM, WHICH ARE CALLED PLANETS,
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR INHABITANTS.
Tr. 1787.
CONTINUATION OF THE LAST JUDGMENT
AND THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. Tr. 1791.
CORONIS. Tr. by R. Hindmarsh, 1811.
DELIGHTS OF WISDOM, CONCERNING CONJUGAL
LOVE.... Tr. 1790.
DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM
RESPECTING THE LORD. Tr. 1784.
ECONOMY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. Tr.
by A. Clissold, 1845.
THE HEAVENLY DOCTRINE OF THE NEW
JERUSALEM. Tr. 1791.
ON THE DIVINE LOVE AND THE DIVINE
WISDOM. Tr. 1840.
ON THE NEW JERUSALEM AND ITS HEAVENLY
DOCTRINE, AS REVEALED FROM
HEAVEN. Tr. 1784.
ON THE WORSHIP AND LOVE OF GOD.
[Part I.] Tr. 1816.
PRINCIPIA, OR THE FIRST PRINCIPLES
OF NATURAL THINGS. Tr. by A. Clissold.
1845-46.
SKETCH OF THE DELIGHTS OF CONJUGAL
LOVE. Tr. 1789.
TREATISE CONCERNING HEAVEN AND
HELL. Tr. 1778.
TREATISE CONCERNING THE LAST JUDGEMENT.
Tr. by R. Hindmarsh, 1810.
TREATISE ON THE NATURE OF INFLUX.
Tr. 1784.
TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, containing the
Universal Theology of the New Church. Tr. 1786.
WISDOM OF ANGELS CONCERNING DIVINE
LOVE AND WISDOM. Tr. 1816.
'It cannot be denied that Swedenborg's theosophy has exerted an important
influence upon many gifted minds who are far from accepting all
the details of his extraordinary revelations'.
TACITUS, CAIUS CORNELIUS. b. 55, d. 130.
Roman historian.
THE ANNALES: AND THE DESCRIPTION OF
GERMANY. Tr. by Richard Grenaway, 1598.
THE ENDE OF NERO AND BEGINNING OF
GALBA, fower Bookes of the Histories of Cornelius
Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. By Sir Henry
Savile, 1581.
WORKS OF TACITUS: To which are Prefixed
Political Discourses upon that author [by Thos.
Gordon.] 1728.
TAINE, HIPPOLYTE A. b. 1828, d. 1893. French
littérateur.
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. (Histoire
de la Littérature Anglaise, 1863-64.) Tr. by H.
van Laun, 1871.
THE IDEAL IN ART ... Tr. by J. Durand, 1870.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART. Tr. by J. Durand,
1865.
TALMUD, THE (Babylonian and Jerusalem).
Vol. 1. of the JERUSALEM TALMUD. The
First English Translation by D. M. Schwab appeared
in 1885.
THE TRADITIONS OF THE JEWS, or THE
DOCTRINES AND EXPOSITIONS CONTAINED
IN THE TALMUD AND OTHER RABBINICAL
WRITINGS. Tr. by Rev. John P. Stehelin, 1732-4.
THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE JEWS ACCORDING
TO THE TALMUD. Tr. 1880.
EXTRACTS FROM THE TALMUD.... Tr. by
P. I. Herschon, 1860.
TASSO, TORQUATO. b. 1544, d. 1595. Italian
epic poet.
THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKES YVYCHURCH
(Aminta), Conteyning the affectionate life
... of Phillis and Amyntes (1581). Tr. by A.
Fraunce, 1591.
GODFREY OF BULLOIGNE; or THE RECOVERIE
OF HIERUSALEM.... Tr. into English
by R. C.[arew] and now the first part containing five
cantos. 1594.
GODFREY OF BULLOIGNE; or THE RECOVRIE
OF JERUSALEM. Done into English
heroical verse by Edw. Fairfax, 1600.
THE HOUSEHOLDER'S PHILOSOPHY. Tr.
by T. K. 1588.
Writings largely influenced by Virgil.
Imitated by Spencer in his 'Faerie Queene'. Milton was also influenced
by him.
TASSONI, ALESSANDRA. b. 1565, d. 1635. Italian
critic and satirist.
LA SECCHIA RAPITA; or, THE RAPE OF
THE BUCKET. Tr. by J. Atkinson, 1825.
Published severe criticism on the poet Petrarch in 1609, which gave rise
to much bitter controversy with several of that poet's admirers.
Suggested to Pope his 'Rape of the Lock'.
TEGNÉR, ESAIAS. b. 1782, d. 1846. Swedish poet.
AXEL: a romance (1821). Tr. by R. Muckleton,
1864.
AXEL AND SVEA. Poems ... Tr. by O. Baker,
1840.
FRITHJOF'S SAGA (1825). Tr. by W. Strong
[1833].
SONG OF THE SUN. Tr. 1817.
TELLEZ, FR. GABRIEL. b. 1570, d. 1648. Spanish
writer.
TRAVELS OF THE JESUITS IN ETHIOPIA,
CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF KINGDOMS
AND PROVINCES OF THE EMPIRE, THE
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE,
etc. Tr. 1710.
TERENCE, PUBLIUS TERENTIUS. b. c. 195 B.C.,
d. 159 B.C. Roman comic poet.
ANDRIA THE FIRST COMEDIE OF TERENCE
IN ENGLISH. Tr. by M. Kyffin, 1588.
COMEDIES MADE ENGLISH ... By several
Hands [L. Eachard, etc.]. 1694.
FLOURES FOR LATINE SPEAKYING ...
GATHERED OUTE OF TERENCE ... Translated
into Englyshe, together with exposition and settyng
foorth as well of suche latine wordes ... thought
nedeful to be añoted, as also of diverse grammaticall
rules ... compiled by N. Udall, 1553.
THE SECOND COMEDIE OF P. T. CALLED
EUNUCHUS ... English and Latine: claused for
such as would write or speak the pure language of
this Author ... Tr. by Dr. Webbe, 1629.
TERENS IN ENGLYSH. [The translacyon out
of Latin into Englysh of the fürst comedy of Tyrens
called Andria.] [1520.]
The dramas of Terence influenced English comedy of intrigue after the
Restoration.
TERESA, SAINT. b. 1515, d. 1582. Spanish nun.
THE FLAMING HART; or, THE LIFE OF THE
GLORIOUS S. TERESA. Tr. by M. T., 1642.
TERTULLIAN (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS
TERTULLIANUS). b. 160, d. 230. Latin father
of the Church.
ADDRESS OF TERTULLIAN TO SCAPULA
TERTULLUS. Tr. by Sir D. Dalrymple, Lord
Hailes, 1790.
THE SECONDE BOOKE OF TERTULLIAN
unto his Wyf. Tr. by John Hoper, 1550.
TERTULLIAN'S APOLOGY, or DEFENCE OF
THE CHRISTIANS ... Tr. by H. B.[rown] 1655.
TERTULLIAN'S PRESCRIPTION AGAINST
HERETICKS. Tr. by J. Betty, 1722.
THEOCRITUS. b. 300, d. B.C. One of the most
famous pastoral poets of antiquity.
THE CYCLOPS. Tr. in English Verse by Francis
Hryland, 1763.
THE IDYLLIUMS OF THEOCRITUS ... Tr.
[by T. Creech], 1684.
THE SHEPHERD'S STARRE, NOW OF LATE
SEENE ... [By T. Bradshaw], 1591.
SIXE IDYLLIA. Tr. by E. D. 1588.
Influenced Tennyson's 'Œnone' Spenser's 'Shepheard's Calendar',
Sidney's 'Arcadia', Milton's 'Lycidas', Arnold's 'Thyrsis'. Shelley's
'Adonais' is an echo of Moschus' 'Lament for Bion'.
THEOGNIS. c. 550 B.C. Greek poet.
THEOGNIS RESTITUTUS, partly verse and
partly prose. Tr. by John H. Frere, 1842.
THEOPHRASTUS. b. 372, d. 286 B.C. Greek
philosopher.
THE CHARACTERS OF THEOPHRASTUS;
together with the characters of the Age, by La
Bruyère, 1700.
THE CHARACTERS OF THEOPHRASTUS.
Tr. by Eustace Budgell, 1713.
EPICTETUS MANUALL. Theophrastus Characters.
Tr. by J. Healey, 1616.
The Characters of T. were imitated by La Bruyère in his 'Characters';
also by Hall, 'Characterismes of Virtues and Vices', Overbury, 'Characters ...';
and Earle, 'Microcosmography'.
THIERRY, JACQUES N. AUGUSTIN. b. 1795, d. 1856.
French historian.
HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF ENGLAND
BY THE NORMANS. 3 v. Tr. 1825.
TEN YEARS OF HISTORICAL STUDIES (1834).
Tr. 1845.
NARRATIVES OF THE MEROVINGIAN TIMES
PRECEDED BY CONSIDERATIONS ON THE
HISTORY OF FRANCE (1840). Tr. [1845].
ESSAY ON THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION
OF THE THIRD ESTATE (1853). Tr. Rev.
F. Wells, 1855.
THIERS, LOUIS ADOLPHE. b. 1797, d. 1877.
French historian and littérateur.
HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
10 v. (1823-27). Tr. 1826? Tr. F. Shoberl. 5 v.
1838.
HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND THE
EMPIRE. 20 v. (1845-62). Tr. D. F. Campbell,
1845-62.
HISTORICAL WORKS OF M. A. THIERS. Tr.
T. W. Redhead. (Vol. 4 tr. H. Greenfield and others.)
4 v. 1845[-78.]
THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY, A REFUTATION
OF COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM. Tr. 1848.
THE THREE KINGS OF COLOGNE. Ed. C. Horstmann.
E.E.T.S. 1886.
THUCYDIDES. c. 471 B.C. Greek historian.
THE HYSTORY WRITTONE BY THUCIDIDES
THE ATHENYON OF THE WARRE, WHICH
WAS BETWENE THE PELOPNESIANS AND
THE ATHENYANS.... Tr. oute of Frenche by T.
Nicolls, 1550.
TIBULLUS (ALBIUS). b. 55 B.C., d. 18 B.C. Roman
elegiac poet.
THE ELEGIES OF TIBULLUS, translated into
English, with some observations on the original
Design of Elegiac Verse, with the Characters of the
most celebrated Greek ... Poets. By Mr. Dart,
1720.
TIECK, JOHANN LUDWIG. b. 1773, d. 1853.
German poet and novelist.
THE ELVES. Tr. by Thos. Carlyle, 1845.
FAIR-HAIRED ECKBERT: etc. Tr. by Thos.
Carlyle, 1874.
FERMER THE GENIUS. Tr. by F. Marckwort,
1837.
THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.... Tr.
1860.
THE PICTURES; THE BETROTHING. Tr.
1825.
THE REBELLION IN THE CEVENNES. Tr. by
Madame Burette, 1845.
THE ROMAN MATRON. Tr. 1845.
TALES FROM THE PHANTASUS (1812-17).
Tr. by J. C. Hare, 1845.
TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVITCH. b. 1828. Russian
author and reformer.
ANNA KARENINA. (1878.) Tr. 1886.
CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. (1856.) Tr. 1862.
THE COSSACKS. (1852.) Tr. 1878.
FAMILY HAPPINESS (1889). Tr. 1890.
FRUITS OF ENLIGHTENMENT. Tr. by E. J.
Dillon, 1891.
INVADERS, THE (1861). Tr. [1888].
IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES.
(1884-6.) Tr. 1887.
KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU. Tr. 1894.
THE KREUTZER SONATA. (1889.) Tr. 1890
LIFE. Tr. [1889].
LONG EXILE. Tr. 1888.
MY CONFESSION. Tr. [1890].
MY RELIGION. Tr. [1890].
NAPOLEON AND RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. Tr.
[1890].
POEMS IN PROSE. Tr. 1887.
RESURRECTION. (1899.) Tr. 1900.
RUSSIAN PROPRIETOR (1852-59). Tr. 1887.
SEBASTOPOL. (1855.) Tr. 1887.
TERRIBLE CZAR. Tr. 1892.
'A vivid romance of times of Ivan the Terrible'.
TWO PILGRIMS. Tr. 1889.
WAR AND PEACE, (1860.) Tr. 1886.
WHAT IS ART.... Tr. ... A. Maude.
[1899.]
WHAT MEN LIVE BY. Tr. 1889.
WHAT TO DO. Tr. [1890].
WHERE LOVE IS THERE GOD IS. Tr. 1889.
WORK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT. Tr.
1890.
Tale of the Early Christians.
TOWNELEY MYSTERIES. Cir. 15th century.
Ed. for Surtees Soc., 1836. Pollard, E.E.T.S., 1897
TRIAMOUR, SIR. See Sir Triamour.
TRISSINO, GIOVANNI GIORGIO. b. 1478, d. 1550.
Italian littérateur and diplomatist.
SOFONISBA? Tragedy of 'Sofonisba' written in
1524. (No translation.)
The author of a critical work entitled 'La Poetica', and number of poems
in Italian.
First example of blank verse borrowed by Surrey and used by Sackville
in 'Gorboduc', and later by Marlowe for tragic drama.
TROY, ROMANCES OF.
FEVRE, RAOUL LE. RECUYELL OF THE
HISTORYES OF TROYE. 1472.
TROY CYCLE.
THE GESTE HYSTORIALE OF THE DESTRUCTION
OF TROY, THE TROY BOOK. Ed.
Panton and Donaldson. E.E.T.S., 1869.
Originally written in Northern dialect. The poem is probably founded
on a French version of Guido d. Colonne. The editors assign it to the same
author as that of 'Morte Arthur', viz., Huchown of the Awle Ryale.
TURGENIEF, or TOURGUÉNIEF, IVAN SERGEEVICH
b. 1818, d. 1883. Russian poet and novelist.
ANNALS OF A SPORTSMAN. Tr. 1885.
AN NOUCHKA. Tr. 1884.
ASS'YA. Tr. by Gersoni, 1887.
DESPERATE CHARACTER; AND OTHER
TALES. Tr. 1901.
THE DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN. Tr.
1884.
DIMITRI ROUDINE. (Roudine, 1855.) Tr.
1873.
DREAM TALES; AND PROSE POEMS. [1882,
etc.]. Tr. 1897.
FATHERS AND SONS. (1861.) Tr. by E.
Schuyler, 1867.
FIRST LOVE. Tr. by S. Jerrold, 1884.
LIZA (Hélène, 1860). Tr. by W. Ralston, 1869.
Also Tr. as HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK.
MUMU, AND DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS
MAN. Tr. 1884.
ON THE EVE. (1859.) Tr. by C. E. Turner, 1871.
POEMS IN PROSE. Tr. 1883.
RUSSIAN LIFE IN THE INTERIOR. (1846.)
Tr. 1855.
SMOKE, or LIFE AT BADEN (1867). Tr. 1868.
SPRING FLOODS. Tr. 1874.
UNFORTUNATE WOMAN. Tr. by Gersoni, 1887.
VIRGIN SOIL. (1876.) Tr. by T. S. Perry, 1877.
TURGOT, A. R. J. b. 1727, d. 1781. French
economist.
LIFE AND WRITINGS OF TURGOT. Ed.
W. W. Stephens, 1895.
REFLECTIONS ON THE FORMATION AND
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. Tr. 1793.
UHLAND, JOHANN LUDWIG. b. 1787, d. 1862.
German lyric poet.
THE POEMS OF L. U., now first translated. By
A. Platt, 1848.
SONGS AND BALLADS. Tr. from Uhland,
Körner, etc., 1838.
URFÉ, HONORE D'. b. 1568, d. 1625. French
writer of romance.
ASTREA; a romance. (L'Astrée, 1608-26, 6 vols.)
Tr. by a Person of Quality. 3 vols. 1657-58.
VALDES, FRANCISCO. Spanish author.
THE SERJEANT-MAJOR.... Englished by
John Thorius, 1590.
VALERIUS MAXIMUS. B.C. 1st century. Roman
historian.
ROMÆ ANTIQUÆ DESCRIPTIO; a view of
the Religion, Laws, Manners, etc. of the Ancient
Romans, from their Acts and Sayings. Tr. Samuel
Speed, 1678.
VASARI, GIORGIO. b. 1511, d. 1574. Italian
painter and writer upon art.
CHOICE OBSERVATIONS UPON PAINTING,
together with Vasari's Lives of the most eminent
Painters ... (1550). Tr. by Wm. Aglionby, 1719.
VEDAS. 1400 B.C.
THE BENGALA TRANSLATION OF THE
VEDANT, [or rather an English Version by Rāmamohana
Rāya ...], or Resolution of all the Veds ...
181[6?].
RIG VEDA-SANHITÂ, the sacred Hymns of the
Brahmans.... Edited by Max Müller, etc. 6 v.
1849-74.
RIKSAMHITÂ: based on the Native traditional
interpretation by H. H. Wilson, completed by E. B.
Cowell, 4 v. 1854-57-66.
RIKSAMHITÂ: in metre, by Ralph Griffith.
SAMA VEDA. Translation of the Sanhita of the
Sama Veda. By Rev. J. Stevenson, 1841.
Vêdâ (English plural Vedas), i.e. 'knowledge', cognate with the old
English wit. The name of the sacred books or scriptures of the Brahmins,
supposed to contain the fountain and sum of all essential knowledge. They
consist of four parts, the Rig-Vêda, Sama-Vêda, Yajur-Vêda and Atharva-Vêda.
Of these the Rig-Vêda is the most important. It is composed of
religious lyrics or hymns, and is confessedly the oldest extant portion of
Sanscrit literature, dating perhaps from 1400 to 1800 B.C.
VEGA, CARPIO LOPE FELIX DE. b. 1562, d. 1635.
Spanish poet and dramatist.
ROMEO AND JULIET. Tr. 1770.
THE FATHER OUTWITTED: a Spanish Interlude.
Tr. 1806.
Originator of the 'Cloak and Sword' drama. Imitated by Jonson
and Fletcher. Influenced English drama after the Restoration through
French sources.
'Perhaps the most amazing thing in all Spanish literature is the miraculous
fecundity of Lope, to whom are credited nearly two thousand plays.'
VERCELLI BOOK (CODEX VERCELLENSIS).
Ed. (with tr.) J. M. Kemble, 1843-46.
This is a large MS. volume of Anglo-Saxon homilies among which are
interspersed six poems. Discovered in 1822 by Dr. Blum. The hand-writing
is of the 11th century, and the poems contained in this MS. are:
1. The Andreas. 2. Fates of the Apostles. 3. Address of the Soul to the
Body. 4. Falseness of Men (a fragment). 5. Dream of the Road. 6. Elene.
VERLAINE, PAUL. b. 1844, d. 1896. French poet.
POEMS. Tr. G. Hall, 1895.
VERNE, JULES. b. 1828. French author.
ADRIFT IN THE PACIFIC. Tr. 1889.
ADVENTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA. Tr. [1891].
ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HATTERAS.
See (1) English at the North Pole and (2) Field of Ice.
AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY. Tr. Mrs. C. Hoey.
1898.
ARCHIPELAGO ON FIRE. Tr. 1886.
AROUND THE MOON. Tr. 1875.
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
[1873.] Tr. 1873.
BEGUM'S FORTUNE. Tr. W. H. G. Kingston.
[1879.]
BLOCKADE RUNNERS (1874). Tr. 1874.
CAPTAIN ANTIFER. Tr. 1895.
CASTLE OF THE CARPATHIANS (1893). Tr.
1893.
CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS.
The Exploration of the World [B.C. 505-A.D. 1700].
(The Great Navigators of the 18th century. The
Great Explorers of the 19th century.) Tr. [by
Dora Leigh, N. D'Anvers, etc]. 3 v. 1879-81.
CHILD OF THE CAVERN. Tr. W. H. G. Kingston,
1877.
CLIPPER OF THE CLOUDS. Tr. 1887.
CRYPTOGRAM (1882). Tr. 1882.
DICK SANDS. Tr. E. E. Frewer. [1878.]
DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT. Tr. 1874.
ENGLISH AT THE NORTH POLE. (1874.) Tr.
[1874].
FAMILY WITHOUT A NAME. Tr. [1890].
FIELD OF ICE. Tr. 1876.
FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON. (1870.) Tr. 1870.
FLIGHT TO FRANCE. Tr. 1888.
FLOATING CITY AND THE BLOCKADE
RUNNERS. Tr. H. Frith, 1876.
FOR THE FLAG. Tr. Mrs. C. Hoey, 1897.
FOUNDLING MICK. Tr. 1895.
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. (1873.)
Tr. by L. Mercier and C. E. King, 1873.
FUR COUNTRY. Tr. H. Frith, 1879.
GIANT RAFT (1881). Tr. 1881.
GODFREY MORGAN (1883). Tr. 1883.
GREEN RAY. Tr. 1883.
HECTOR SERVADOC. Tr. E. E. Frewer, 1878.
JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE
EARTH (1872). Tr. [1872].
KERABAN THE INFLEXIBLE: Part 1. The
Captain of the Giudara. Part 2. Scarpante the
Spy. Tr. 1884-85.
THE LOTTERY TICKET. Tr. 1887.
MARTIN PAZ. Tr. E. E. Frewer, 1876.
MATHIAS SANDORF. Tr. 1886.
MERIDIANA: THE ADVENTURES OF THREE
ENGLISHMEN AND THREE RUSSIANS IN
SOUTH AFRICA. Tr. 1873.
MICHAEL STROGOFF (1877). Tr. 1877.
MISTRESS BRANICAN. Tr. 1892.
THE MYSTERIOUS DOCUMENT. Tr. 1876.
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. (1875.) Tr. by W.
H. G. Kingston, 1875.
NORTH AGAINST SOUTH. Tr. 1888.
THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE.
Sequel to 'From the Earth to the Moon'. Tr.
[1890].
ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
Tr. H. Frith. [1890.]
STEAM HOUSE. Tr. W. H. G. Kingston, 1881.
SURVIVORS OF THE CHANCELLOR. Tr.
E. Frewer, 1875.
TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN. Tr. E. E.
Frewer, 1880.
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER
THE SEA (1872). Tr. 1872.
VANISHED DIAMOND. Tr. 1885.
VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. Tr. 3 v.
1876-77.
WINTER AMID THE ICE, etc. Tr. 1876.
THE WONDERFUL TRAVELLERS ... Containing
'A Journey into the Interior of the Earth'
and 'Five Weeks in a Balloon'. Tr. by F. A. Malleson.
[1877.]
Many of our present-day writers have imitated the mock-scientific
romances of Verne.
VIGNY, ALFRED DE. b. 1799, d. 1864. French
poet and novelist.
CONSPIRATORS. Tr. W. Hazlitt, 1873.
CINQ-MARS: or A CONSPIRACY UNDER
LOUIS XIII (1826). Tr. 1846.
CHATTERTON (1835). Tr. [1835].
LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MILITARY LIFE.
Tr. 1840.
VILLARI, PASQUALE. b. 1827. Italian scholar.
SAVONAROLA AND HIS TIMES (1859-61).
Tr. 1863.
MACHIAVELLI AND HIS TIMES (1877). Tr.
[1891].
FIRST TWO CENTURIES OF FLORENTINE
HISTORY. Tr. 1894.
VILLON, FRANCOIS (FRANÇOIS DE MONTCORBIER).
b. 1431, d. 1485 (?). French poet.
THE POEMS OF MASTER FRANÇOIS VILLON
OF PARIS, now first done into English Verse by J.
Payne, 1878.
VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO). b. 70,
d. 19 B.C. Latin poet.
THE BUCOLIKS OF PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS
MARO ... together with his Georgics. Tr. into
[blank] verse by A. F.[raunce or Fleming], 1589.
THE ECLOGUES OF VIRGIL, with a commentary ... Tr.
1512.
THE EPIGRAMS OF P. V. M. AND OTHERS.
With the praises of him and his workes. Also his
Epitaphs composed by divers illustrious persons.
And lastly the arguments of his workes. Englished
by J. P.[erkethman], 1624.
Here fynyssheth the boke of Eneydos, compyled
by Vyrgyle, whiche hathe be translated oute of
latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to
Englysshe by me Wyll̃m Caxton, 1490.
[This is not a translation, but rather a compendium or abstract of the
Æneid, with some additions.]
THE XIII BUKES OF ENEADOS OF THE
FAMOUS POETE VIRGILL. Translated out of
Latyne Verses into Scottish meter, bi ... Mayster
G. Douglas ... Euery buke having hys perticular
prologe. (1513.) [1553.]
THE WHOLE XII BOOKES OF THE ÆNEIDOS
OF VIRGILL. Whereof the first ix and part of the
tenth were translated by T. Phaër ... and the
residue supplied, and the whole worke together newly
set forth, by T. Twyne ... There is added ... Virgil's
life out of Donatus, 1573.
VISCHARD DE SAINT REAL, C. See Réal.
VITRUVIUS (MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO). B.C.
60? Roman architect and writer.
DE ARCHITECTURA. Tr. R. Castell, 1730,
and W. Newton, 1771-91.
The only ancient treatise on the subject of architecture that has come
down to us. Highly esteemed as a text book.
VOITURE, VINCENT DE. b. 1598, d. 1648. French
poet and wit.
SELECT LETTERS OF VOITURE. The first
translated by Mr. Dryden and the rest by Mr.
Dennis, 1696.
HISTORY OF ALEIDALIS AND ZELIDE ... Tr.
1678.
WORKS OF M. VOITURE. Tr. ... Mr. Dryden,
Mr. Dennis, Dr. Drake, 1736.
LETTERS OF AFFAIRES, LOVE AND COURTSHIP.
Englished by J. D(avies), 1657.
FAMILIAR AND COURTLY LETTERS ... made
English by Mr. Dryden, etc. With twelve
Select Epistles, out of Aristænetus ... 1700.
Served as a model to sundry writers after the Restoration as Dorset, Sedley.
His letters and poems were considered by the critics of his own day as
models of grace, but were marred by affectation. His style was greatly
admired by Pope and Boileau.
VOLKSLIEDER. (People's Songs.) 14th-16th
century.
Many of the Volkslieder have been translated in
single poems in various anthologies. See 'German
Anthologies,' etc.
VOLTAIRE, AROUET DE, FRANÇOISE MARIE.
b. 1694, d. 1778. French philosopher and
writer.
ANNALS OF THE EMPIRE FROM THE TIME
OF CHARLEMAGNE. Tr. by D. Williams, H.
Dowman, etc. 1781.
ANTI-MACHIAVEL. Tr. 1752.
BABOUC; or, THE WORLD AS IT GOES. Tr.
1754.
CANDIDUS; or, ALL FOR THE BEST. (1756.)
Tr. 1759.
One of the 'Philosophical Romances'.
CRITICAL ESSAY ON DRAMATIC POETRY.
Tr. 1760.
DEFENCE OF LORD BOLINGBROKE'S
LETTERS; ON THE STUDY AND USE OF
HISTORY. Tr. 1753.
ESSAY ON THE AGE OF LOUIS 14TH. Tr. by
Mr. Lockman, 1739.
ESSAY ON THE CIVIL WARS OF FRANCE,
AND ALSO ON THE EPIC POETRY OF THE
EUROPEAN NATIONS, FROM HOMER TO
MILTON. With a Discourse on Tragedy, 1727.
ESSAY ON UNIVERSAL HISTORY. Tr. 1754-57.
HENRIADE: an Epick poem. Tr. 1732.
HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE UNDER
PETER THE GREAT. Tr. 1760-63.
HISTORY OF THE WAR OF 1741. Tr. 1756.
HISTORY OF THE AGE OF LOUIS 14TH. Tr.
1770.
MAHOMET: A tragedy (1740). Tr. by Mr.
Miller, 1744. Philosophical Romance.
LETTERS CONCERNING THE ENGLISH
NATION (1729). Tr. 1733.
MEROPE. (1734-43.) Tr. by T. Theobald, 1744.
THE METAPHYSICS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON:
or, A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE OPINIONS
OF SIR I. N. AND MR. LEIBNITZ. Tr. by David
E. Baker, 1747.
WORKS. Tr. by Dr. Smollett and T. Franklin,
35 vols. 1761-9.
[Smollett and Franklin were, for a valuable consideration induced by
the booksellers to suffer their names to appear as the translators, but they
had no further share in the matter.]
Voltaire's influence upon our literature is hardly calculable.
'If Voltaire exercised a greater attractive influence on the mind of Europe
than any other man of his age, it was because he felt more than any other
the influence of the age upon himself'.
WALDERE. MS., 9th century. Found 1860 in Royal
Library, Copenhagen.
Ed. 'Two Leaves of King Waldere's Lay', text
and tr. G. Stephens, 1860.
WALTER OF COVENTRY.
MEMORIALE. Ed. W. Stubbs. Vols. i-ii. Rolls
Ser. 1872-73.
WERNER, FRIEDRICH L. Z. b. 1768, d. 1823.
German poet, dramatist and novelist.
AT THE ALTAR. Tr. 1878.
BROKEN CHAINS. Tr. 1890.
BEACON FIRES. Tr. 1891.
FICKLE FORTUNE. Tr. 1881.
GOOD LUCK. Tr. 1890.
HERMANN. Tr. 1879.
HERO OF THE PEN. Tr. 1878.
NO SURRENDER. Tr. 1879.
PARTNERS. Tr. 1882.
RIVEN BONDS. Tr. 1877.
SACRED VOWS. Tr. 1878.
SUCCESS. Tr. 1876.
UNDER A CHARM. Tr. 1877.
WIDSITH (Far traveller).
'THE TRAVELLER'S SONG' or 'THE SCOP,
OR SCALD'S TALE'. Ed., Tr. by H. Morley in
Cook and Tinker's 'Select Tr. from Eng. Poetry',
1902.
WIELAND, CHRISTOPH MARTIN. b. 1733, d. 1813.
German poet.
CRATES AND HIPPARCHIA. A Tale. Tr. by
C. R. Cake, 1823.
THE GRACES: a Classical allegory ... Tr. [by
S. T., i.e. Sarah Taylor, afterwards Austin], 1823.
HISTORY OF AGATHON. (1762-.) Tr. 1773.
OBERON. (1784-87.) Tr. by Wm. Sotheby,
1798.
PRIVATE HISTORY OF PEREGRINUS PORTEUS,
THE PHILOSOPHER. Tr. 1796.
REASON TRIUMPHANT OVER FANCY, exemplified
in the Adventures of Don Silvio de Rosalva.
(1762-6.) Tr. 1773.
THE REPUBLIC OF FOOLS ... Tr. by H.
Christmas, 1861.
SELECT FAIRY TALES. Tr. 1796.
SOCRATES OUT OF HIS SENSES. Tr. by
Wintersted, 1771.
SYMPATHY OF SOULS. Tr. 1795.
WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY. b. 1095, d. 1142.
THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND
(Gesta Regum), from the Arrival of the
Saxons A.D. 449, to his own Times, A.D. 1143,
by William of Malmesbury. Collected with
authentic MSS., and Tr. from the original Latin
by Rev. J. Sharpe. 1815.
Mentioned here as highly prized for accuracy, veracity, and critical judgment.
One of the sources of our modern historians.
WILLIAM OF PALERNE. Cir. 14th century.
[or, Wm. the Werwolf].
Ed. Prof. W. W. Skeat. Also Ed. Madden, Roxburghe
Club, 1832. E.E.T.S., 1867.
WILLIBALD. b. 700?, d. 786. Bishop of Eichstadt.
Ed. EARLY TRAVELS IN PALESTINE.
Notices of travels, dictated to and written down by author's kinswoman,
a nun of Heidenheim. Bohn. Ant. Lib., 1847.
WINCKELMANN, JOHN (JOHANN JOACHIM).
b. 1717, d. 1768. German critic and writer on
art.
HISTORY OF ANCIENT ART. Tr. from the
German by G. Henry Lodge, 2 v. 1849.
REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING AND
SCULPTURE OF THE GREEKS: with instructions
for the Connoisseur and an Essay on Grace in Works
of Art. Tr. by Henry Fuseli, 1765.
WYCLIF, JOHN. See Bible.
XENOPHON. b. 435, d. 354 B.C. Greek historian.
CYROPÆDIA: The Bookes of Xenophon, containing
the Institution, Schole and Education of
Cyrus. Tr. by William Bercker, 1567. The Bookes
of X. containing the discipline ... Tr. [to the end
of the sixth Book only]. By W. Barkar. [1560?].
ANABASIS. The Historie of Xenophon of the
Retreat of the Ten Thousand, by John Bingham, 1623.
HELLENICS. Xenophon's History of Greece.
Tr. by John Newman, 1685.
MEMORABILIA. The Banquet of X. done
from the Greek ... with an introductory Essay
concerning the Doctrine and Death of Socrates, by
James Welwood, 1710.
XENOPHONS TREATISE OF HOUSHOLDE
ryght counnyngly trãslated ... by Gentian Heruet,
1532.
YORK MYSTERIES. Cir. 1378.
Ed. Lucy T. Smith, 1885.
ZAPPI, GIAMBATTISTA F. b. 1667, d. 1719.
Italian poet and jurist.
SONNETS. Tr. T. H. Croker, 1755.
ZEND AVESTA. 1200-800 B.C. Translated by
Arthur Henry Bleek. 3 volumes in 1. 1864.
[Comprises the ancient sacred writings of the Parsees.]
ZOLA, ÉMILE. b. 1840, d. 1902. French novelist.
The Rougon-Macquart Series. (Les Rougon Macquart;
histoire Naturelle et Sociale d'une famille
sous le Second Empire. 1871-1893.)
CLAUDE'S CONFESSION. Tr. by G. D. Cox,
1888.
1. THE FORTUNES OF THE ROUGONS. (La
Fortune de Rougon). (1886.) Tr. 1871.
2. IN THE SWIM. (La Curée). Tr. 1887.
3. THE FAT AND THE THIN. (Le Ventre
de Paris). (1888.) Tr. 1888.
4. THE CONQUEST OF PLASSONS. (La Conquête
de Plassan). (1887.) Tr. 1887-8.
5. ABBÉ MOURET'S TRANSGRESSION. (Le
Faute de l'Abbé Mouret). Tr. 1886-8.
6. HIS EXCELLENCY EUGÈNE ROUGON.
Tr. 1887-90.
7. THE DRAM SHOP. (1885.) (L'Assommoir.)
Tr. 1897.
8. A LOVE EPISODE. (Page d'amour). (1886.)
Tr. 1886-9.
9. NANA. Tr. 1880.
THE DOWNFALL (La Débâcle). (1892.) Tr. 1892.
THE DREAM. (1888.) (Le Rêve.) Tr. 1893.
FRUITFULNESS. (1899.) (Fécondité.) Tr. 1900.
GERMINAL; or, MASTER AND MAN (1885).
Tr. 1885-88.
GIRL IN SCARLET. Tr. 1888.
HIS MASTERPIECE. (L'Œuvre). Tr. 1886-88.
HOW JOLLY LIFE IS! (Joie de vivre.) (1883.)
Tr. 1886-88.
LADIES' PARADISE. Tr. by F. Belmont. 3 v.
LOURDES. (1894.) Tr. 1894.
MADELINE FERAT. Tr. 1888-89.
MONEY. (L'argent). (1891.) Tr. 1894.
PARIS. (1897.) Tr. 1898.
PIPING HOT. (Pot-Bouille). Tr. 1885-88.
ROME. (1895.) Tr. 1896.
RUSH FOR THE SPOIL. (Curée.) Tr. 1885.
SOIL. (La Terre). Tr. 1888.
SOLDIER'S HONOUR, AND OTHER STORIES.
Tr. 1887.
STORIES FROM NINON. (Contes à Ninon.)
(1858-1874.) Tr. 1895.
THÉRÈSE RAQUIN. Tr. 1885.
WORK. (Travail.) (1901.) Tr. 1901.
The naturalistic work of Zola has had, during recent years, a wide influence
upon our modern novelists.