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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.
     240 B. C.
       100 B.C.


    1st century AD


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


    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

    Lord Chesterfield

                                Eusebius Pamphilus :  His Ten Books of Ecclesiastical

    18th 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  
            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