The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

CARMEN, (1845). Tr. 1845.

COLOMBA: a Corsican story ... (1840). Tr. by A. R. Scoble, 1853.

DEMETRIUS THE IMPOSTOR: an Episode in Russian History. Tr. by A. R. Scoble, 1853.

MERLIN; or, The Early History of King Arthur. C. 1450-60. Ed. H. B. Wheatley. E.E.T.S. 1860-69.

'An early chapter in the mythical history of Arthurian Britain. Tr. from a French romance (13th century) that was based on a poem by Robert de Borron. Covers in more prolix fashion the first five books of Malory'.

METASTASIO, PIETRO TRAPASSI. b. 1698, d. 1782. Italian poet.

ADRIANO IN SIRIA; drama, etc. [Altered from M.; Italian and English]. 1735.

ARTAXERXES; an opera. [Altered from M.]. Tr. 1734.

DEATH OF ABEL. An Oratorio ... Tr. 1768.

THE DESERT ISLAND; a dramatic poem. Tr. by A. Murphy, 1760.