ŒDIPUS, KING OF THEBES. Tr. with notes by Lewis Theobald, 1715.
PHILOCTETES. Tr. by Thos. Sheridan. 1725.
THE TRAGEDIES OF SOPHOCLES. Tr. with notes by Geo. Adams, 1729.
Influenced Milton's 'Samson Agonistes', Addison's 'Cato', Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon', Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound', Byron's 'Cain' and 'Manfred'. Arnold's 'Merope' is an imitation of S.
SPAGNUOLI, BAPTISTA MANTUANUS. b. 1448, d. 1516. Italian poet. A Carmelite Friar. Erasmus says that 'he would be placed by posterity not much below Virgil'.
EGLOGS OF THE POET B. MANTUAN CARMELITAN, turned into English Verse ... by George Turbervile, Gent. 1567.
THE BUCOLICKS OF B. M. IN TEN ECLOGUES. Tr. ... by Thos. Harvey, 1656.
Copied by both Sanazzaro and Spenser ('Shepherd's Calendar'); also by Sidney.
'Readers of "Love's Labour's Lost" need hardly be told that "good old Mantuan" was a Latin school-book in Shakespeare's boyhood, and has also been imitated by Barclay'.
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS. Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales and Traditional Literature.