Edwin Atherstone

Edwin Atherstone (* 1788† 1872) bol anglický básnik, predstaviteľ romantizmu. 

Jeho najväčšie dielo je epos The Fall of Nineveh (Pád Ninive), ktorý je epická dráma podľa vzoru Homéra aj Vergília, napísaná v noblesnom klasickom štýle s výrazným poetickým akcentom. Epos pojednáva o tom, ako hlavné mesto Asýrie Ninive bolo vydrancované spojenými vojenskými silami Médov a Babylonanov.

Bibliografia 
 The fall of Nineveh. A poem by Edwin Atherstone. Second edition: dilligently corrected and otherwise improved. In two volumes, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, London 1868.
 Israel in Egypt. A poem by Edwin Atherstone, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, London 1861.
 The last days of Herculaneum and Abradates and Panthea. Poems by Edwin Atherstone, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London 1821.
 Dramatic works of Edwin Atherstone. Edited by his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Atherstone, E. Stock, London 1888.
 The sea-kings in England: an historical romance of the time of Alfred by the Author of the "Fall of Niniveh", In Three Volumes, Robert Cadell, Edinburgh 1830.
 The handwriting on the wall, a story by Edwin Atherstone, In Three Volumes, Richard Bentley, London 1858.

Referencie 

Anglickí básnici
Básnici romantizmu
Narodenia v 1788
Úmrtia v 1872