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
19th century
Translators
Poems
Written
Published
Sources
Notes
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
Written
Published
Sources
Notes
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 Raphael Kenneth 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 .
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