Anne Finch's Source Texts for her translations, and Parodies, and Poems in Praise of her Work

• Bussy-Rabutin, Roger, Comte de. The Maximes d'Amour par le Comte de Bussy.
  • Love, but lett this concern you most
  • Absence in Love effects the same
• Dacier, Anne Lefèvre. Les Poésies d'Anacreon et de Sapho.
  • Gentlest Air thou breath of Lovers
  • You, when your body, life shall leave
  • The Muses frolicksom and gay
  • When Mars the Lemnian Darts survey'd
  • Immortal Venus, to whose Name
• Deshouliers, Antoinette du Ligier-de-la-Garde. Oeuvres de Madame et Mlle Deshouliers.
  • URANIA, whom the Town admires
• L'Estrange, Sir Roger. Fables of Aesop.
  • Two long had lov'd and now the Nymph desir'd
  • Never trifle with a Disease
  • NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door
• La Fontaine, Jean. Fables choisies mises en vers. ed. G. Couton. Paris: Garnier, 1962
  • An Annotated List: this matches La Fontaine's fable and other lesser known Aesopic texts with each of Finch's translations (paraphrases), imitations, and adaptations.
  • An Annotated Bibliography: Primary and Secondary Sources for all Finch's translations (paraphrases), imitations and adaptations. These are not necessarily hard-to-find or unknown source texts, for example, Racine's Athalia. The emphasis is on La Fontaine and fables, but there are other kinds of source texts which Finch used cited here.
• Longepierre, Hilaire-Bernard de Requeleyne, seigneur de. Les Idylles de Bion et de Moschus. Traduites de Grec en Vers Francois.
  • Mourn all ye Loves the fair Adonis dyes
• Maldeghem, Philippe de, Seigneur de Leyschot, Le Petrarque en Rime Francoise.
  • When Phoebus, at declining of the day
• Montaigne, Michel de. From "Des Cannibals" (as copied in MS Finch-Hatton & MS Folger).
  • Stay Lovely viper, hast not on
• Poems Upon Affairs of State (1704): "[Upon] A Fart"
  • Gentlest Air thou breath of Lovers
• Racine, Jean. Athalie.
  • WHy, to our Wonder, in this Place is seen
• Mrs Randolph, in MS Folger
  • An Epistle from Mrs Randoph, to Mrs Finch; upon her presenting her with some of her Poems.
• Rogers, Thomas. A Pretious Booke of Heavenly Meditations.
  • Thee woundrous Being excellently great
  • Blest is the Soul which loos'd from sordid Earth
• Shippen, William, in Ms Folger
  • To the most ingenouis Mrs Finch on her incomperable [sic] Poems"
• Tollet, Elizabeth, Poems on Several Occasions
  • "An Ode to the Memory of the Countess of Winchilsea"
• Torches, Abbé de. L'Aminte du Tasse. Pastorale.
  • Then, to the snowy Ewe, in thy esteem
  • Thirsis, to thee I mean that Name to show
  • Why doest thou still give way to such dispair?
  • Then, by some fountain's flow'ry side
  • Though wee of Small Proportion see
• Toutain, Charles Agamemnon.
  • The treach'rous Fortune of a Royal Crown
• Webster, John. The Duchess of Malfi
  • Reputation, Love, and Death

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