This collection is in two parts, the first being simple translations, the second part being made up of burlesques, imitations, and satires founded upon the Odes of Horace. The best of these were written by the authors of The Rejected Addresses, James and Horace Smith.
Lexiphanes, a Dialogue, imitated from Lucian, and suited to the present Times, with a dedication to Lord Lyttleton. 1767. A piece of satire directed against Dr. Johnson by one Archibald Campbell.
The Sale of Authors. A Dialogue in imitation of Lucian. 1767.
The New Lucian, being a Series of Dialogues of the Dead. By H. D. Traill. London, 1884.
Burlesque upon Burlesque: or, the Scoffer Scoff’d. Being some of Lucian’s Dialogues newly put into English Fustian, for the Consolation of those who had rather Laugh and be Merry, than be Merry and Wise. By Charles Cotton. London.
Ovid Travestie, a Burlesque upon Ovid’s Epistles. By (Captain) Alexander Radcliffe. London, J. Tonson. 1680.
The Wits Paraphras’d; or, Paraphrase upon Paraphrase. In a Burlesque on the several late translations of Ovid’s Epistles. London, 1680.
Ovid in London: Ludicrous Poem in Six Cantos. By a Member of the University of Oxford. London: W. Anderson, 1814.
Scarronides: or, Virgil Travestie. A Mock Poem on the First and Fourth Books of Virgil’s “Æneis” in English Burlesque. By Charles Cotton. London, 1670. There have been many editions of this burlesque.
A Kerry Pastoral, in imitation of the First Eclogue of Virgil. Edited by T. C. Croker. (Reprint 1843).