Author:William Sotheby

William Sotheby
(1757/1756–1833)

Works

• Poems (1790)
• A tour through parts of Wales, sonnets, odes, and other poems (1794)
• The Battle of the Nile (1799)
• The Cambrian Hero, or Llewelyn the Great: an Historical Tragedy (n.d.)
• The Siege of Cuzco (1800)
• Julian and Agnes, or the Monks of the Great St. Bernard (1801)
• A Poetical Epistle to Sir George Beaumont, Bart., on the Encouragement of the British School of Painting (1801)
• Oberon: or, Huon de Bourdeaux: a Mask: and, Orestes: a Tragedy (1802)
• Saul (1807)
• Constance de Castille (1810)
• A Song of Triumph on the Peace (1814)
• Five Tragedies (1814)
• Ivan; a tragedy (1816)
• Farewell to Italy, and occasional Poems (1818)
• Poems (1825)
• Italy, and other poems (1828)
• Lines suggested by the third meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, in June, 1833 (1834)

Translations

• Oberon, a poem (1798), by Christoph Martin Wieland, in 2 vols. [external scan]
• The Georgics of Virgil (1800) [external scan]
• The First Book of the Iliad, a Specimen of a New Version of Homer (1830)
• The Iliad of Homer (1831), by Homer, in 2 vols. [external scan]
• The Iliad and Odyssey (1833), by Homer, in 4 vols.

Works about Sotheby

• "Sotheby, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sotheby, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Sotheby, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)