Translations into Greek and Latin Verse

First published in 1907, this book contains a series of Richard Claverhouse Jebb's translations from English poetry into Greek and Latin verse.

Richard Claverhouse Jebb (Author)

9781107686526, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 May 2014

336 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1.8 cm, 0.54 kg

Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905) was an influential Greek scholar and politician. First published in 1907, as the second edition of an 1873 original, this book contains a series of Jebb's translations from English poetry into Greek and Latin verse. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Greek, Latin and English literature.

1. Abt Vogler Browning
2. Tithonus Tennyson
3. 'Home the brought her warrior dead' Tennyson
4. From 'Henry IV' Part I. Act I Scene III Shakespeare
5. The Dying Swan Tennyson
6. Silence Lord Houghton
7. From 'The Spanish Gypsy' George Eliot
8. In Memoriam, Stanza LXIII Tennyson
9. From Timon of Athens' Act IV Scene III Shakespeare
10. 'Tears, idle tears' Tennyson
11. Stanzas Keats
12. Darkness Lord Byron
13. 'Many a year is in its grave' Longfellow
14. From 'Julius Caesar' Act II Scene I Shakespeare
15. Song from 'The Arcades' Milton
16. Ode Prior
17. From 'Prometheus Unbound' Shelley
18. On an Early Death Lord Byron
19. From 'The Progress of Poesy' Gray
20. From 'King John' Act IV Scene I Shakespeare
21. To a Lady's Girdle Waller
22. Iphigenia Tennyson
23. From 'The Two Noble Kinsmen' Act V Scene I Beaumont and Fletcher
24. The Praise of Virtue Marshall
25. From 'The Virgin Martyr' Act IV Scene III Massinger
26. Mycerinus Matthew Arnold
27. Diaphenia Constable
28. From 'Hamlet' Act III Scene III Shakespeare
29. The Last Man Campbell
30. From 'Enoch Arden' Tennyson
31. From 'Paradise Lost' Book I 105-124 Milton
32. The Progress of Poesy Matthew Arnold
33. The Coming of Arthur Tennyson
34. From 'Atalanta in Calydon' Swinburne
35. 'Her sufferings ended with the day' James Aldrich
36. From 'Romeo and Juliet' Act V Scene III Shakespeare
37. In Memoriam, Stanza LXXXVIII Tennyson
38. From 'Twelfth Night', Act II Scene IV Shakespeare
39. From 'Guinevere' Tennyson
40. From 'The Giaour' Lord Byron
41. The Dream Lord Byron
42. Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity Milton
43. Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood Wordsworth
Index of authors
Index of first lines.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]