Creation, or La Première Semaine, by Du Bartas, about 1570. French Ep., H.M. English version by Joshua Sylvester, 1605.
Decameron, by Boccaccio, 1350. Italian pr. tales. An English version by G. Standfast, and by many others. Diable Boiteux, by Lesage, 1707. French pr. tale. W. Coombe wrote an English imitation, called The Devil upon Two Sticks, 1790.
Divina Commedia, by Dantê: Inferno, 1300; Purgatory, 1308; Paradise, 1311. Italian Ep. poems. English translations by Boyd, 1785; Gary, 1814, b.v.; Wright, 1833, triple rh.; Caley, 1851-55, ter. rh.; Pollock, 1854, b.v.; Dayman, 1865; Rossetti, 1865; Longfellow, 1870; Norton, 1892; etc.
Don Quixote, by Cervantes, pt. i., 1605; ii., 1615. Spanish Nov. English versions by Shelton, 1612-20; Motteux, 1719; Jarvis, 1742; Smollett, 1755; Wilmot, 1774; Duffield, 1881; etc. All in pr. Dramatized by Durfey, 1694-96.
Fables, by Lafontaine, 1668. French; d.m.
Fairy Tales, by la comtesse D’Aunoy, 1682. French pr.
Gargantua, by Rabelais, 1533. French Nov. English version by Urquhart and Motteux, 1653.
Gil Blas, by Lesage, bks, i.-iii., 1715; iv.-vi., 1724; vii.-xii., 1735. French Nov. English version by Smollett, 1761; Procter, 1774; Smart, 1807; etc. All in pr.
Goblin Stories, by the brothers Grimm, 1812. German pr.
Goethe, 1749-1832 (German). Achilliad (The), about 1800. Farbenlehre, 1810. Hermann and Dorothea, 1797. Poem. Metamorphosis of Plants, 1790. Es. Werther, 1774. Rom. Wilhelm Meister, 1794. Rom. (For dramatic pieces, see Appendix III.)