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

by William James Harris

CID ROMANCES.

The most important of the Cid literature is the poem written about the 12th cent., and probably the oldest document in the Spanish language.

GIBSON, J. YOUNG. Tr. THE CID BALLADS, [AND OTHER POEMS]. Ed. Margaret D. Gibson. 2 v. 1887.

LEWIS, G. Tr. THE CID BALLADS. 1883.

LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON. Tr. ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS. Historical and Romantic. 1823.

[Contains ballads afterwards omitted.]

ORMSBY, JOHN. Tr. POEMS OF THE CID. 1879.

SOUTHEY, R. Tr. AMADIS OF GAUL. 1872.

SOUTHEY, R. Tr. CHRONICLES OF THE CID. [Prose.] 1808.

Translated from three books, (1) 'Chronica del Cid', (2) 'Chronica Genera de España', (3) 'Poema del Cid' (composed, c. 1135-75).