This novel is generally supposed to have served as a model for that of Gil Blas.
This novel is generally supposed to have served as a model for that of Gil Blas.
EUCLID.3rd centuryB.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.]
[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.
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'.
'"Eulenspiegel": a series of amusing trickeries which are reflected in the English Robin Goodfellow'.
EURIPIDES.b.480,d.406B.C.Greek tragic dramatist.
JOCASTA: a Tragedie, translated [from the Phoenissæ] and digested into Acte by G. Gascoygne and F. Kinwelmershe [1575].
JOCASTA.Ina 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'.
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 withTr.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. NewlyPrinted, 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.
[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.
'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 adaptedto English Readers, with an original Chapter on Religious Studies. By T. F. Dibdin, 1805.
FERUMBRAS.SeeSir 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.
FIRDUSIorFERDUSI(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.'
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 SEVERALNEW 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.
'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 deMontauban, seep. 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.
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 EnglishTr.of all the twenty-four stories.]
[The first EnglishTr.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.
See also underOxenford, J.
See also underOxenford, J.
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.
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.]
[The Chanson de Roland,tr.into English verse.]
OXENFORD, JOHN. THE ILLUSTRATEDBOOK 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 beentr.before.['Specimens of the Early Poetry of France' were added later by Louisa S. Costello.]
Contains most of the national songs and ballads of France, many of which have never beentr.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.andG. 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.
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.Translatedby 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.
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 Frenchparaphraseprobably, of an Anglo-Normanchanson 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'.
'The Frenchparaphraseprobably, of an Anglo-Normanchanson 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'.
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.
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'.
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.]
[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, JOHNandC. 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.'.
'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.
EnglishTr.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'.
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.andEd.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 1sttrs.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.
'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.]
[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'.
'Contains translation of several not generally met with'.
GRIMM, JAKOB L. C.b.1785,d.1863.German jurist and philologist;andWilhelm C.b.1786,d.1859.
GERMAN POPULAR STORIEStranslated(by Edgar Taylor) from the Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, collected by Grimm from Oral tradition. [With Illustrations by George Cruikshank, 1823-26.]
See also underGerman Anthologies.
GRINGOIRE, PIERRE.b.1478,d.1544.French poet and dramatist.
THE CASTELL OF LABOUR.Tr.[by P. G.] [1506].
GROTIUS, HUGO DE(orHUIG 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. [Translatedby 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'.
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'sCollection of Old Plays. It appeared in French in 1525.
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'sCollection 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. (Phantasienim BremerRathskeller, 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 centuryA.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.]
[First printed in Greek at Basle, 1534.]
HENRY OF HUNTINGDON.d.1155.English historian.
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH (Historia AnglorumB.C.55A.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.424B.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.735B.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.