# English translations of Catullus

This is an incomplete list of English translations and adaptations of and from the poetry of Catullus.

## 16th century

| Translator | Poems | Written | Published | Sources | Notes |
| Philip Sidney | 70 | | | Sidney, Philip (1922). Feuillerat, Albert (ed.). The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 307. | "A metrical experiment and the first Catullus in English". |

## 17th century

| Translator | Poems | Written | Published | Sources | Notes |
| Walter Raleigh | 5 | | | Tomlinson, Charles, ed. (1980). The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 51. | |
| Ben Jonson | 5 | in or before 1605 | | Volpone 3.6 (1607; 1616) | |
| Ben Jonson | 7 | | | The Forest (1616) | |
| Thomas Campion | 5 | | 1601 | Campion, Thomas (1601). A Booke of Ayres. London: Peter Short. | |
| Thomas Campion | 13 | | 1613 | Campion, Thomas (1613). Two Bookes of Ayres. London: Tho. Snodham. | |
| Abraham Cowley | 45 | before 1667 | 1668 | Poole, Adrian; Maule, Jeremy, eds. (1995). The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation. Oxford University Press. pp. 271–2. | |
| John Dryden | 5, 70 | | 1685 | Sylvæ: Or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson. 1685. | |
| William Bowles | 64 | | 1685 | Sylvæ: Or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson. 1685. | |
| John Oldham | 7 | | 1684 | Oldham, John (1684). The Works of Mr. John Oldham, Together with his Remains. London: Jo. Hindmarsh. pp. 97–98. | |
| John Chatwin | 5 | c. 1685 | | Elliot, Alistair (2003). "Catullus by Several Hands". Translation and Literature. 12 (2): 252–62. JSTOR 40339948. | MS. Rawl. poet. 94, p. 191. |

## 18th century

| Translators | Poems | Written | Published | Sources |
| Jonathan Swift | 92 | 1736 | 1746 | Swift, Jonathan (1937). Williams, Harold (ed.). The Poems of Jonathan Swift. p. 264. |
| Nicholas Amhurst | 58 | | | Amhurst, Nicholas (1723). Poems on Several Occasions. London: R. Francklin. p. 35. |
| Anonymous | 4 | | 1717 | McPeek, James A. S. (1939). Catullus in Strange and Distant Britain. Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature XV. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 250–251. |
| John Langhorne | 5 | before 1778 | 1790 | Garrod, H. W., ed. (1912). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 455–456. |
| William Wordsworth | | c. 1786–7 | | Tomlinson, Charles, ed. (1980). The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 338. |

## 19th century

| Translators | Poems | Published | Sources |
| Walter Savage Landor | 2, 5, 7, 39, 61, 75, 85 | | Wheeler, Stephen, ed. (1935). The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor. Vol. 15. Chapman and Hall Ltd.Wheeler, Stephen, ed. (1936). The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor. Vol. 16. Chapman and Hall Ltd. |
| Thomas Moore | 31 | | Moore, Thomas (1823). The Works of Thomas Moore. Vol. 8. Paris: Paris. pp. 70–71. |
| George Lamb | almost complete | 1821 | Lamb, George (1821). The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus. London: John Murray. |
| Leigh Hunt | 31, 61 | | Hunt, Leigh (1849). The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (New ed.). London: Edward Moxon. pp. 197–198. |
| William Ewart Gladstone | 51 | | Lyttelton, Lord; Gladstone, William Ewart (1861). Translations. London: B. Quaritch. pp. 79–81, 102–105. |
| Robinson Ellis | almost complete | 1871 | Ellis, Robinson (1871). The Poems and Fragments of Catullus, Translated in the Metres of the Original. London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co. |
| John Hookham Frere | 3, 4, 10, 31, 39, 61 | | Frere, John Hookham (1874). The Works of the Right Honourable John Hookham Frere, in Verse and Prose. Vol. 2. London: Basil Montagu Pickering. pp. 382–397. |
| Theodore Martin | almost complete | | Martin, Theodore (1875). The Poems of Catullus, Translated into English Verse with an Introduction and Notes (2nd ed.). Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. |
| Richard Francis Burton Leonard Charles Smithers | complete | 1894 | Burton, Richard Francis; Smithers, Leonard C. (1894). The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. London: Printed for the Translators. |
| Aubrey Beardsley | 101 | 1896 | Beardsley, Aubrey (November 1896). "Catullus. Carmen CI". The Savoy. No. 7. p. 52. |
| Charles Stuart Calverley | 31 | | Calverley, Charles Stuart (1901). Sendell, Walter J. (ed.). The Complete Works of Charles Stuart Calverley. London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 278–279. |

## 20th century

| Translators | Poems | Published | Sources |
| Walter George Headlam | 34 | 1901 | Headlam, Walter George. A Book of Greek Verse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 228–231. |
| Thomas Hardy | 31 | | Hardy, Thomas (1923). Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. p. 166. |
| Arthur Symons | 86 | 1913 | Symons, Arthur (1913). Knave of Hearts. 1894–1908. London: William Heinemann. p. 140. |
| G. S. Davies | 3 | | Garrod, H. W., ed. (1912). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 454–455. |
| Francis Warre-Cornish | complete | 1913 | Warre-Cornish, Francis (1921). Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris. Loeb Classical Library. London: William Heinemann. |
| Frank O. Copley | complete | 1957 | Copley, Frank O. (1957). Gaius Valerius Catullus: The Complete Poetry. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press. LCCN 57010149. |
| Charles Hubert Sisson | complete | 1966 | Sisson, Charles Hubert (1966). Catullus. London: MacGibbon and Kee. ASIN B000PHOUEU. |
| Frederic RaphaelKenneth McLeish | complete | 1978 | Raphael, Frederic; McLeish, Kenneth (1978). The Poems of Catullus. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-01599-8. |
| Charles Martin | complete | 1990 | Martin, Charles (1990). The Poems of Catullus. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3925-2. |

## 21st century

| Translators | Poems | Written | Published | Sources | Notes |
| David Mulroy | complete | | 2002 | Mulroy, David (2002). The Complete Poetry of Catullus. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-17770-6. | |
| Josephine Balmer | the shorter poems | | 2004 | Balmer, Josephine (2004). Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate. Highgreen, Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books. ISBN 978-1-85224-645-7. | |