This is an incomplete list of English translations and adaptations of and from the poetry of Catullus.
16th century TranslatorPoemsWrittenPublishedSourcesNotesPhilip Sidney70"A metrical experiment and the first Catullus in English".
17th century TranslatorPoemsWrittenPublishedSourcesNotesWalter Raleigh5Ben Jonson5in or before 1605Volpone 3.6 (1607; 1616)Ben Jonson7The Forest (1616)Thomas Campion51601Thomas Campion131613Abraham Cowley45before 16671668John Dryden5, 701685William Bowles641685John Oldham71684John Chatwin5.
18th century +TranslatorsPoemsWrittenPublishedSourcesNotesanonymousalmost all1707in 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)https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-adventures-of-catull_la-chapelle-m-de-jean_1707/page/268/mode/2up?q=Cornelius+NeposJonathan Swift9217361746Nicholas Amhurst5, 7, 8, 58, 81, 84Anonymous41717John Langhorne5before 17781790William WordsworthJohn Nott (1751–1825)complete1795Nott, John. The poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, in English verse: with the Latin text revised, and classical notes... 1797 (printed anonymously)
19th century TranslatorsPoemsWrittenPublishedSourcesNotesWalter Savage Landor2, 5, 7, 39, 61, 75, 85Thomas Moore31George Lambalmost complete1821Leigh Hunt31, 61William Ewart Gladstone51Walter K. Kellycomplete1854including erotica. In prose.James Cranstouncomplete1867Robinson Ellisalmost complete1871John Hookham Frere3, 4, 10, 31, 39, 61Theodore Martinalmost complete1874Rev. James Daviescomplete1877Francis Peacock Simpson complete1879E. T. Merrillcomplete1893Sidney George Owencomplete1893Richard Francis Burton Leonard Charles Smitherscomplete1894Aubrey Beardsley1011896William Lyman Cowlescomplete1896Edward George Harmancomplete1897Charles Stuart Calverley31
20th century TranslatorsPoemsWrittenPublishedSourcesNotesWalter George Headlam341901Thomas Hardy31Francis Warre-Cornishcomplete1904, 1913, 1921Cambridge, 1904.Charles Stuttafordcomplete1912Arthur Symons861913G. S. Davies3Mary Stewartcomplete1915Ruth Sheffield Dementcomplete1915Richard F. Burton and Leonard C. Smithers complete1928Capitain Sir Richard F. Burton (metrical) and Leonard C. Smithers (prose, intro and notes)F.C.W. Hiley complete1929Jack Lindsaycomplete1930Horace Gregorycomplete1931Frank O. Copleycomplete1957Charles Hubert Sissoncomplete1966Peter Whighamcomplete1969Reney Myers and Robert J. Ormsbycomplete1972Carl Sesarcomplete1974Frederic Raphael, Kenneth McLeishcomplete1978G. P. Gooldcomplete1983Charles Martincomplete1990Jacob Rabinowitzcomplete1991
21st century TranslatorsPoemsWrittenPublishedSourcesNotesDavid Mulroycomplete2002Josephine Balmerthe shorter poems2004Jeannine Diddle Uzzi and Jeffrey Thomsoncomplete2015annotated TranslationDaisy Dunncomplete2016
References
Sources
List of full translations of Catullus in English language with links to online texts
Further reading