ANONYMOUS (1746)JENNINGS (1794)
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William Hayley
(1745-1820)
| 1782. | (In the notes to his Third Epistle on Epic Poetry) | |
| Son. xxxii. (sonnet, with the same scheme of rhymes as the original)[1] | ||
| Inf. i-iii (terza rima) |
Charles Burney[2]
| Purg ii. 73-92, 106-17 (heroic couplets) (in Vol. ii of his History of Music) |
Charles Rogers
(1711-1784)
| 1782 | Inferno (‘‘The Inferno of Dante Translated") (blank verse) (issued anonymously) |
Henry Boyd[3]
{d. 1832)
| 1785 | Inferno ("A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, in English Verse") (six-lined stances, rhyming a a b c c b) | |
| Purg. xxx. 115-41 (same metre) | (Vol. i, pp. 179-181) |
Henry Francis Cary[4]
(1772-1844)
| 1792 | (In Letter to Miss Seward from Christ Church, Oxford) | |
| Purg. iii. 79-85 (prose) | ||
| Purg. v. 37-9 (prose) |
Henry Constantine Jennings
(1731-1819)
| 1794 | (In Summary and Free Reflections, in which the Great Outline only, and Principal Features, of several Interesting Subjects, are impartially traced, and candidly examined)[5] | |
| Inf. v. 1-138 (blank verse) (condensed by 35 lines) | ||
| Inf. xxxii. 125-xxxiii. 89 (blank verse) (condensed by 26 lines) |
- ↑ 1 The sonnet addressed to Guido Cavalcanti, beginning, "Guido. vorrel." Hayley styles his rendering an “invitation.”
- ↑ See also under 1761, 1771.
- ↑ See also under 1802.
- ↑ See also under 1803, 1806, 1815, 1819, 1831, 1844
- ↑ This work was published in 1798, but the translations appear to have been made in 1794
