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The Elf Line of Literature and
History

    [Full texts are in Larger Print and Starred*** and the rest are samples
    of the author mentioned -- either an entire poem, extract, collection,
    review, short story or book. There are smaller bits of many other
    authors and texts to be found under the pertinent goddess at The
    Court of the Muses.]


    ANTIQUITY


          The Mimes of Herodas (aka Herondas), English
               
564 B. C.

        Ibycus****

259 B. C.
     240 B. C.
      100 B.C.



1st century AD


   Statius, The Silvae, Translated with Introduction and Notes by   
                                 
D. A. Slater***

   2nd century AD

   
Xenophon's Ephesian History: or the Love-
       Adventures of Abrocomas and Anthia.***
               Translated by Mr. Rooke



3rd Century



    "DARK" AGES

4th Century




5th Century

    Colluthus***, translated by A. W. Mair
               
               Tryphiodorus***, translated by A. W. Mair

    Judith***





         Alfred the Great
    Abelard and Heloise
    Bertran de Born
    Villon
       
10th Century


    MIDDLE AGES



    Collections of Medieval Legends, Allegories,Satires, Romances




    11th CENTURY

      12th CENTURY

                    by William Aspenwall Bradley



    13th CENTURY

                      by Alfonso X, King of Leon and Castile



    Alfonso X, King of Leon and Castile
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Frederick II.
    Cielo dal Camo
    Rustico Di Filippo


     14th CENTURY



      15th CENTURY

    Poggio Bracciolini:
                    Facetia Erotica by Poggio Fiorentino (Anonymous



    RENAISSANCE


 16th CENTURY


    Niccolo Machiavelli: Poem, Novel
    Alessandro Girolamo Sozzini
    Giovanni Brevio
    Pietro Fortini
    Gentile Sermini
    Agnolo Firenzuola
    Bernardo Illicini
    Girolamo Parabosco


                                                      with illustrations by the Marquis de Bayros



    REFORMATION

 17th CENTURY


                               Eusebius Pamphilus :  His Ten Books of Ecclesiastical



       Mr. Rooke, translator:
                 Xenophon's Ephesian History: or the Love-
           Adventures of Abrocomas and Anthia.***
         


 18th CENTURY



     19th CENTURY



    William Blake
    Richard Hovey
    Edward Jesse, Esq.
    Lionel Johnson
    Fiona McLeod (Robert Sharpe)
    Matthew Arnold
    Alfred Tennyson
    Walt Whitman
    James K. Paulding
    Washington Irving
    Fitz-Greene Halleck
    Augustus B. Longstreet
    Seba Smith
    William Cullen Bryant
    Robert C. Sands
    Albert Gorton Greene
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    N. P. Willis
    Edmund Quincy
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    William Tappan Thompson
    Henry Ward Beecher
    Frantz Funck-Brentano, The Man with the Iron Mask***, translated by
    George Maidment, from Legends of the Bastille.
           
           Cheney
           Ogg    
           John Addington Symonds
           John Timbs

           William Andrews, Old Church Lore***
              as editor:
                              Antiquities and Curiosities                   
                              of the Church***

           Grant Allen
           Montague Ford
           Gail Hamilton
           Leon Mead
           Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward)  
           Charles Eliot Norton
           Robert J. Burdette
           Reginald Lane Poole
           Edward Jesse, Esq.
           Edward Lear
           Thomas Yriarte
           Alexandre Dumas
           Henry Swinburne  
           Peter Christen Asbjörnsen
           Sir George Dasent
           Theophile Gautier

       Epiphanius Wilson, translator, The Forty Vezirs***

         My Lady Pokahontas*** Writ by Anas Todkill;
                With Notes by John Esten Cooke [fiction]



 20TH CENTURY



           Cornwall's Wonderland***, by Mable Quiller Couch
                     collected from the Peasants by Helene Vacaresco,


    James T. Shotwell



    21st century