# The Greek Anthology (Paton)/Volume I/Chronological list of the more important books containing verse translations from the Greek Anthology

A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT BOOKS CONTAINING VERSE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY :
| 1806. | Translations, chiefly from the Greek Anthology, etc. |
| | [By R. Bland ilnd J. H. Merivale.] |
| 1813. | Collections from the Greek Anthology and from the Pastoral, Elegiac and Dramatic Poets of Greece. By R. Bland and others. |
| | [Many versions by J. H. Merivale.] |
| 1833. | ______ A new edition. By J. H. Merivale. |
| | [Many versions by C. Merivale.] |
| 1847. | Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome. By various translators. Edited by William Peter. Philadelphia. |
| 1849. | Anthologia Polyglotta. A selection of versions in various languages, chiefly from the Greek Anthology. By H. Wellesley. |
| | [Wellesley was only the editor and author of some of the versions.] |
| 1852. | The Greek Anthology, as selected for the use of Westminster, Eton and other Public Schools. Literally translated into English prose, chiefly by G. Burges. To which are added metrical versions, etc. |
| | [Bohn's Classics.] |
| [1864]. | Greek Anthology, with Notes Critical and Explanatory. Translated by Major Robert Guthrie MacGregor. |
| | [MacGregor, an Anglo-Indian soldier, produced advance instalments, as Specimens of Greek Anthology [1855] and Epitaphs from the Greek Anthology [1857]. His versions are rather dull, but close to the Greek.] |
| 1869. | Idylls and Epigrams. Chiefly from the Greek Anthology. By Richard Garnett. |
| | [The Epigrams were reprinted in 1892, as A Chaplet from the Greek Anthology.] |
| 1871. | Miscellanies by John, Addington Symonds, M.D. Selected and edited, with an introductory memoir, by his son. |
| 1873-6. | Studies of the Greek Poets. By John Addington Symonds [the younger]. |
| | [Ed. 3, 1893. Chapter xxii. in vol. ii. deals with the Anthology, and contains many versions by the author, his father, and others.] |
| 1878. | Chrysanthema gathered from the Greek Anthology. By W. M. Hardinge. The Nineteenth Century, November, pp. 869-888. |
| 1881. | Amaranth and Asphodel. Songs from the Greek Anthology. By Alfred Joshua Butler. |
| | [The translator is to be distinguished from the late Arthur J. Butler.] |
| 1883. | Love in Idleness: a volume of Poems. |
| | [By H. C. Beeching (by whom the majority of versions from the Anthology are contributed), J. B. B. Nicholls, and J. W. Mackail. The book was reprinted in part as Love's Looking Glass, in 1891, and Dean Beeching's versions are reprinted, revised, in his In a Garden, 1895.] |
| 1888. | Grass of Parnassus, Rhymes Old and New. By Andrew Lang. |
| | [Second edition, 1892, with additions.] |
| [1889]. | Selections from the Greek Anthology. Edited by Graham R. Thomson. |
| | [In the "Canterbury Poets" series. Not very well edited, but contains many good versions.] |
| 1890. | Fifty Poems of Meleager. With a translation by W. Headlam. |
| [1891.] | From the Garden of Hellas. Translations into verse from the Greek Anthology. By Lilla C. Perry. |
| 1898. | Anthologiae Græcae Erotica. The Love Epigrams of Book V. of the Palatine Anthology, edited, and partly rendered into English verse, by W. R. Paton. |
| 1899. | An Echo of Greek Song. Englished by W. H. D. Rouse. |
| 1901. | Rose Leaves from Philostratus and other Poems. Written by Percy Osborn. |
| 1903. | Paraphrases and Translations from the Greek. By the Earl of Cromer. |
| 1907. | A Book of Greek Verse. By Walter Headlam. |
| | [Translations from and into Greek.] |
| 1908. | Poems from the Greek Anthology. Attempted in English verse, by G. H. Cobb. |
| 1911. | Greek Love Songs and Epigrams from the Anthology. By J. A. Pott. |
| 1913. | ________ Second series. |
| " | Ancient Gems in Modern Settings. Being versions of the Greek Anthology in English rhyme by various writers. Edited by G. B. Grundy. |
| | [Many versions are contributed by the Editor and Mr. Pott.] |
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