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The First Printed
Translations into English
of the
Great Foreign Classics
_A SUPPLEMENT TO TEXT-BOOKS
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE_
By
WILLIAM J. HARRIS, A.R.S.I.
BOROUGH LIBRARIAN, BROMLEY
LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIMITED
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO
To my Wife
THE
FIRST PRINTED TRANSLATIONS
INTO ENGLISH
PREFACE
This bibliography has been compiled with the view of supplementing
existing text books on English literary history, and assisting
students in preparing for examinations in Bibliography and
Literature. It will also be found of service to those who are working
for the professional examinations of the Library Association.
Students of literature, more particularly of English literature,
experience much difficulty in tracing the outside influences which
at various periods, or, perhaps, speaking more correctly, at all
periods, have affected or moulded our literature. The great foreign
classics have exercised a direct and decided influence upon English
literature and the object of this bibliography is to give in concise
form the authors and titles, translations and dates of the first
English translations of the chief foreign authors, and incidentally
to enable students to note the effect of such translations on the
works of many of our great imaginative writers.
So far as it has been possible to discover, no work of this kind
exists in this country. Students are frequently reminded of the
special need for such a bibliography as this, and to all interested
in the subject it should serve a useful purpose, and perhaps help to
fill a gap in literary bibliography.
Students have been asked such questions as--give the date of the
first translation into English of _Don Quixote_, of _The Arabian
Nights_, Boccaccio's _Decameron_, or of Homer. Such questions as
these naturally involve some inquiry and research on the part of the
student, and occupy a larger amount of time than is necessary for the
purpose. Hence the necessity for a brief bibliography of this nature,
which will show at a glance the first translations into English of
the most important foreign classics, and save inquirers the fatigue
of searching catalogues, bibliographies and similar works.
The dictionary form of arrangement has been adopted with the authors
in alphabetical order. In some instances a work has been noticed
twice, in which case the first entry will generally be found to be
an edition, either issued in an incomplete form, or with a doubtful
date. It has also been found necessary to enumerate in nearly all
cases the separate works of each author; the complete works not
appearing till a much later time. The date of original publication
has occasionally been given in brackets, and where a date is seen in
square brackets [ ], it denotes the approximate date of publication.
The anthologies, collections, folk and fairy tales, poetical and
traditional literature have been placed in their national order under
French, German, etc., many important minor works have been published
in these forms, and many important poems have been first translated
in these anthologies, often long before they have appeared in the
author's translated works.
The most important of the Anglo-Saxon, etc., romances have been
included in this Bibliography and appear generally under their
titles. These have played a very important part in the development of
our literature, and many may be considered as foreign, having derived
their origin from foreign sources.
No one is more conscious than the compiler of the difficulties
this little work has entailed, and no one is more conscious of its
imperfections. As far as possible each entry has been verified at
least three times, and from different sources, yet inaccuracies may
have crept in, and any corrections, additions or suggestions will be
thankfully acknowledged.
This bibliography could have been much enlarged, but the endeavour
has been to include only those authors whose work has gone to the
making of English literature, or who stand pre-eminent as introducing
a special school, class or form.
I desire to offer to Mr. James D. Brown my best thanks for his
suggestions in the early stages of this compilation, and to Dr. Baker
for his kindly criticism, and also for going through the proofs.
WILLIAM JAMES HARRIS.
_April, 1909._
FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
=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. S=panish 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. 1_st_ _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.)=