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ОглавлениеABOUT, 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.
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AUGUSTINE, ST. b. 353, d. 430. The most illustrious Latin Father of the Church.
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