This is an incomplete list of English translations and adaptations of and from the poetry of Catullus.
16th century
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Published
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Notes
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Philip Sidney
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70
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Sidney, Philip (1922). Feuillerat, Albert (ed.). The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 307.
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"A metrical experiment and the first Catullus in English".
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17th century
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Poems
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Published
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Sources
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Notes
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Walter Raleigh
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5
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Tomlinson, Charles, ed. (1980). The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 51.
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Ben Jonson
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5
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in or before 1605
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Volpone 3.6 (1607; 1616)
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Ben Jonson
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7
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The Forest (1616)
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Thomas Campion
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5
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1601
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Campion, Thomas (1601). A Booke of Ayres. London: Peter Short.
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Thomas Campion
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13
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1613
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Campion, Thomas (1613). Two Bookes of Ayres. London: Tho. Snodham.
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Abraham Cowley
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45
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before 1667
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1668
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Poole, Adrian; Maule, Jeremy, eds. (1995). The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation. Oxford University Press. pp. 271–2.
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John Dryden
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5, 70
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1685
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Sylvæ: Or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson. 1685.
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William Bowles
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64
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1685
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Sylvæ: Or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson. 1685.
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John Oldham
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7
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1684
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Oldham, John (1684). The Works of Mr. John Oldham, Together with his Remains. London: Jo. Hindmarsh. pp. 97–98.
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John Chatwin
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5
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c. 1685
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Elliot, Alistair (2003). "Catullus by Several Hands". Translation and Literature. 12 (2): 252–62. JSTOR 40339948.
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MS. Rawl. poet. 94, p. 191.
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18th century
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Poems
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Notes
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Jonathan Swift
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92
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1736
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1746
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Swift, Jonathan (1937). Williams, Harold (ed.). The Poems of Jonathan Swift. p. 264.
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Nicholas Amhurst
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5, 7, 8, 58, 81, 84
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Amhurst, Nicholas (1723). Poems on Several Occasions. London: R. Francklin. p. 35.
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Anonymous
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4
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1717
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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.
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John Langhorne
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5
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before 1778
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1790
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Garrod, H. W., ed. (1912). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 455–456.
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William Wordsworth
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c. 1786–7
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Tomlinson, Charles, ed. (1980). The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 338.
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19th century
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Published
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Notes
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Walter Savage Landor
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2, 5, 7, 39, 61, 75, 85
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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.
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Thomas Moore
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31
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Moore, Thomas (1823). The Works of Thomas Moore. Vol. 8. Paris: Paris. pp. 70–71.
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George Lamb
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almost complete
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1821
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Lamb, George (1821). The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus. London: John Murray.
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Leigh Hunt
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31, 61
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Hunt, Leigh (1849). The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (New ed.). London: Edward Moxon. pp. 197–198.
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William Ewart Gladstone
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51
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Lyttelton, Lord; Gladstone, William Ewart (1861). Translations. London: B. Quaritch. pp. 79–81, 102–105.
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Robinson Ellis
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almost complete
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1871
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Ellis, Robinson (1871). The Poems and Fragments of Catullus, Translated in the Metres of the Original. London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co.
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John Hookham Frere
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3, 4, 10, 31, 39, 61
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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.
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Theodore Martin
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almost complete
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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.
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Richard Francis Burton
Leonard Charles Smithers
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complete
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1894
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Burton, Richard Francis; Smithers, Leonard C. (1894). The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. London: Printed for the Translators.
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Aubrey Beardsley
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101
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1896
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Beardsley, Aubrey (November 1896). "Catullus. Carmen CI". The Savoy. No. 7. p. 52.
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Charles Stuart Calverley
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31
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Calverley, Charles Stuart (1901). Sendell, Walter J. (ed.). The Complete Works of Charles Stuart Calverley. London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 278–279.
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20th century
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Notes
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Walter George Headlam
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34
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1901
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Headlam, Walter George. A Book of Greek Verse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 228–231.
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Thomas Hardy
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31
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Hardy, Thomas (1923). Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. p. 166.
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Arthur Symons
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86
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1913
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Symons, Arthur (1913). Knave of Hearts. 1894–1908. London: William Heinemann. p. 140.
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G. S. Davies
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3
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Garrod, H. W., ed. (1912). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 454–455.
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Francis Warre-Cornish
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complete
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1913
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Warre-Cornish, Francis (1921). Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris. Loeb Classical Library. London: William Heinemann.
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Frank O. Copley
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complete
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1957
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Copley, Frank O. (1957). Gaius Valerius Catullus: The Complete Poetry. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press. LCCN 57010149.
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Charles Hubert Sisson
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complete
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1966
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Sisson, Charles Hubert (1966). Catullus. London: MacGibbon and Kee. ASIN B000PHOUEU.
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Frederic RaphaelKenneth McLeish
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complete
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1978
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Raphael, Frederic; McLeish, Kenneth (1978). The Poems of Catullus. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-01599-8.
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Charles Martin
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complete
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1990
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Martin, Charles (1990). The Poems of Catullus. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3925-2.
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21st century
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David Mulroy
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complete
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2002
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Mulroy, David (2002). The Complete Poetry of Catullus. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-17770-6.
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Josephine Balmer
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the shorter poems
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2004
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Balmer, Josephine (2004). Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate. Highgreen, Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books. ISBN 978-1-85224-645-7.
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