Thomas Noble (poet)

Thomas Noble (1772–1837) was an English poet.Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry.

Works

The Dawn of Peace, an Ode, with other pieces ([London]: Ginger, 1801); Zelomer, a romance, translated from the French (12mo., 1801) Blackheath; a Poem in Five Cantos. Lumena; or the Ancient British Battle: and Various Other Poems; Including a Translation of the First Book of the Argonautica of C. Valerius Flaccus, and other poems (4to., London: J. B. Courthope, Richardsons, Harris, and Chapple, 1808); The Persian Hunters, or, The Rose of Gurgistan: an opera (London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817); Poems (Liverpool/London: printed for the author by Smith and Melling/Carpenter and Son, 1821); Julia, or Pre-existent Spirits, in Quaternion Rhymes: The Meditative Minstrel, in Blank Verse... (Derby/London: W. and W. Pike/Charles Tilt, ).

Translation of the Latin Argonautica Henry George Blomfield praised Noble's verse translation of the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus in the preface to his own prose translation:

It is prefaced by a discursive introduction, and some notes, mainly mythological, are appended to the translation.Blomfield 1916, p. 11. The author contemplated a metrical version of the remaining seven books, and even proposed to take the story down to the end of the voyage, and so bring to a conclusion what Valerius himself had left unfinished; but he never lived to complete even the extant portion of the poem, much less fulfil the further task which he had set himself.

Namesake A contemporary Thomas Noble wrote A complete Book of Practical Perspective, exemplified in landscape (4to., 1805).Upcott 1816, p. 253.

References

Sources

Blomfield, H. G. (1916). The Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus: Book I. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell. pp. 11–12. Upcott, William (1816). A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland. London: printed for Henry Colburn by A. J. Valpy. p. 253. "Noble, Thomas". Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry. University of Toronto. Retrieved 8 November 2022.

Thomas Noble (poet)

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