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".[1]

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 Notes
anonymous almost all 1707 in the anonymous novel The Adventures of Catullus, and History of his Amours With Lesbia. Intermixt With Translations of his Choicest Poems. By Several Hands. Done From the French (London: printed for J. Chantry, 1707), the translation from French of galant novel by Jean de La Chapelle «Amours de Catulle» (1680)[2]
Jonathan Swift 92 1736 1746 Swift, Jonathan (1937). Williams, Harold (ed.). The Poems of Jonathan Swift. p. 264.
Nicholas Amhurst 5, 7, 8, 58, 81, 84 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.
John Nott (1751–1825) complete 1795 Nott, John. The poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, in English verse: with the Latin text revised, and classical notes... 1797 (printed anonymously)

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.
Walter K. Kelly complete 1854 including erotica. In prose.
James Cranstoun complete 1867
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 1874 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.
Rev. James Davies complete 1877
Francis Peacock Simpson complete 1879
E. T. Merrill complete 1893
Sidney George Owen complete 1893
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.
William Lyman Cowles complete 1896
Edward George Harman complete 1897
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.
Francis Warre-Cornish complete 1904, 1913,

1921

 Cambrige, 1904.

Warre-Cornish, Francis (1921). Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris. Loeb Classical Library. London: William Heinemann.
Charles Stuttaford complete 1912
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.
Mary Stewart complete 1915
Ruth Sheffield Dement complete 1915
Richard F. Burton and Leonard C. Smithers complete 1928 Capitain Sir Richard F. Burton (metrical) and Leonard C. Smithers (prose, intro and notes)
F.C.W. Hiley complete 1929
Jack Lindsay complete 1930
Horace Gregory complete 1931
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.
Peter Whigham complete 1969
Reney Myers and Robert J. Ormsby complete 1972
Carl Sesar complete 1974
Frederic Raphael, Kenneth McLeish complete 1978 Raphael, Frederic; McLeish, Kenneth (1978). The Poems of Catullus. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-01599-8.
G. P. Goold complete 1983
Charles Martin complete 1990 Martin, Charles (1990). The Poems of Catullus. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3925-2.
Jacob Rabinowitz complete 1991

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.
Jeannine Diddle Uzzi and Jeffrey Thomson complete 2015 annotated Translation
Daisy Dunn complete 2016

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