English translations of Catullus

This is an incomplete list of English translations and adaptations of and from the poetry of Catullus.

16th century

Translator	Poems	Written	Published	Sources	Notes
Philip Sidney	70			Sidney, Philip (1922). Feuillerat, Albert (ed.). The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 307.	"A metrical experiment and the first Catullus in English".

17th century

Translator	Poems	Written	Published	Sources	Notes
Walter Raleigh	5			Tomlinson, Charles, ed. (1980). The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 51.
Ben Jonson	5	in or before 1605		Volpone 3.6 (1607; 1616)
Ben Jonson	7			The Forest (1616)
Thomas Campion	5		1601	Campion, Thomas (1601). A Booke of Ayres. London: Peter Short.
Thomas Campion	13		1613	Campion, Thomas (1613). Two Bookes of Ayres. London: Tho. Snodham.
Abraham Cowley	45	before 1667	1668	Poole, Adrian; Maule, Jeremy, eds. (1995). The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation. Oxford University Press. pp. 271–2.
John Dryden	5, 70		1685	Sylvæ: Or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson. 1685.
William Bowles	64		1685	Sylvæ: Or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson. 1685.
John Oldham	7		1684	Oldham, John (1684). The Works of Mr. John Oldham, Together with his Remains. London: Jo. Hindmarsh. pp. 97–98.
John Chatwin	5	c. 1685		Elliot, Alistair (2003). "Catullus by Several Hands". Translation and Literature. 12 (2): 252–62. JSTOR 40339948.	MS. Rawl. poet. 94, p. 191.

18th century

Translators	Poems	Written	Published	Sources	Notes
Jonathan Swift	92	1736	1746	Swift, Jonathan (1937). Williams, Harold (ed.). The Poems of Jonathan Swift. p. 264.
Nicholas Amhurst	58			Amhurst, Nicholas (1723). Poems on Several Occasions. London: R. Francklin. p. 35.
Anonymous	4		1717	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.
John Langhorne	5	before 1778	1790	Garrod, H. W., ed. (1912). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 455–456.
William Wordsworth		c. 1786–7		Tomlinson, Charles, ed. (1980). The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 338.

19th century

Translators	Poems	Written	Published	Sources	Notes
Walter Savage Landor	2, 5, 7, 39, 61, 75, 85			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.
Thomas Moore	31			Moore, Thomas (1823). The Works of Thomas Moore. Vol. 8. Paris: Paris. pp. 70–71.
George Lamb	almost complete		1821	Lamb, George (1821). The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus. London: John Murray.
Leigh Hunt	31, 61			Hunt, Leigh (1849). The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (New ed.). London: Edward Moxon. pp. 197–198.
William Ewart Gladstone	51			Lyttelton, Lord; Gladstone, William Ewart (1861). Translations. London: B. Quaritch. pp. 79–81, 102–105.
Robinson Ellis	almost complete		1871	Ellis, Robinson (1871). The Poems and Fragments of Catullus, Translated in the Metres of the Original. London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co.
John Hookham Frere	3, 4, 10, 31, 39, 61			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.
Theodore Martin	almost complete			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.
Richard Francis Burton Leonard Charles Smithers	complete		1894	Burton, Richard Francis; Smithers, Leonard C. (1894). The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. London: Printed for the Translators.
Aubrey Beardsley	101		1896	Beardsley, Aubrey (November 1896). "Catullus. Carmen CI". The Savoy. No. 7. p. 52.
Charles Stuart Calverley	31			Calverley, Charles Stuart (1901). Sendell, Walter J. (ed.). The Complete Works of Charles Stuart Calverley. London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 278–279.

20th century

Translators	Poems	Written	Published	Sources	Notes
Walter George Headlam	34		1901	Headlam, Walter George. A Book of Greek Verse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 228–231.
Thomas Hardy	31			Hardy, Thomas (1923). Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. p. 166.
Arthur Symons	86		1913	Symons, Arthur (1913). Knave of Hearts. 1894–1908. London: William Heinemann. p. 140.
G. S. Davies	3			Garrod, H. W., ed. (1912). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 454–455.
Francis Warre-Cornish	complete		1913	Warre-Cornish, Francis (1921). Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris. Loeb Classical Library. London: William Heinemann.
Frank O. Copley	complete		1957	Copley, Frank O. (1957). Gaius Valerius Catullus: The Complete Poetry. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press. LCCN 57010149.
Charles Hubert Sisson	complete		1966	Sisson, Charles Hubert (1966). Catullus. London: MacGibbon and Kee. ASIN B000PHOUEU.
Frederic RaphaelKenneth McLeish	complete		1978	Raphael, Frederic; McLeish, Kenneth (1978). The Poems of Catullus. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-01599-8.
Charles Martin	complete		1990	Martin, Charles (1990). The Poems of Catullus. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3925-2.

21st century

Translators	Poems	Written	Published	Sources	Notes
David Mulroy	complete		2002	Mulroy, David (2002). The Complete Poetry of Catullus. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-17770-6.
Josephine Balmer	the shorter poems		2004	Balmer, Josephine (2004). Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate. Highgreen, Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books. ISBN 978-1-85224-645-7.

Sources

• Tomlinson, Charles, ed. (1980). The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Further reading

• Gaisser, Julia Haig, ed. (2001). Catullus in English. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-042415-6.
• Harrauer, Hermann [in German] (1979). "Translations: English". A Bibliography to Catullus. Bibliography to the Augustan Poetry. Vol. III. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg. pp. 46–49. ISBN 3-8067-0787-1.
• Holoka, James P. (1985). "Translations: English". Gaius Valerius Catullus: A Systematic Bibliography. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. Vol. 513. New York: Garland. pp. 48–57. ISBN 0-8240-8897-2.
• Konstan, David; Skinner, Marilyn B. (2019). Catullus: English Translations. Oxford Bibliographies: Classics. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0010.