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The Elf Line of Literature and
History

    [Full texts are in Larger Print and Starred*** and the rest are
    complete samples of the author mentioned -- either an entire poem,
    collection or 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.


          1st century AD


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


    "DARK" AGES

       4th Century


    5th Century

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

    6th Century

    7th Century
           Antar of Antarah, translated by Terrick Hamilton
    8th Century

           The English Correspondence of Saint Boniface,***
                   Translated and Edited by William Kylie   

    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

    Lord Chesterfield

    18th CENTURY

    Benjamin Franklin
    Abigail Adams
    John Adams
    Francis Hopkinson
    Horace Walpole, earl of Orford
       

    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***

            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  
            Theophile Gautier


           The Man With The Broken Ear, by Edmond About,
           translated from the French by Henry Holt.***

            Greek and Roman Mythology & Heroic Legend***
                   by Prof. Hermann Steuding, trans. by Lionel D. Barnett



          Beautiful Buildings in France & Belgium***,  Including        
                  many which have been destroyed during the war.
                   Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome from rare old
                   Prints and Drawings, by and after Prout, Boys, Coney, W.
                   Callow, David Roberts, C. Wild and others, with descriptive
                   notes by C. Harrison Townsend

                      collected from the Peasants by Helene Vacaresco,
                 translated by Carmen Sylva (Queen Elizabeth of Romania)
                and Alma Strettell    


                                    Romantic Castles and Palaces***