Author:Joshua Barnes

Joshua Barnes
(1654–1712)

Joshua Barnes

Works

• Sacred Poems in Five Books (c. 1669)
• Life of Oliver Cromwell the Tyrant (c. 1670)
• Gerania, or the discovery of a little sort of people anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675) (external scan)
• Αὐλικοκάτοπτρον, sive Estheræ Historia, Poetica Paraphrasi, idque Græco carmine, cui versio Latina opponitur, exornata (1679)
• The apotheosis of the most serene and illustrious monarch, Charles the II with an humble address to His Most Sacred Majesty, King James II: and a poem to the Queen dowager (1685)
• A pindarick congratulatory poem to the Right Honourable George, Lord Jeffreys, Baron of Wem and Lord High Chancellor of England, to the High and Mighty Monarch King James the II &c. (1685)
• The history of that most victorius monarch, Edward IIId, King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, and first founder of the most noble Order of the Garter being a full and exact account of the life and death of the said king : together with that of his most renowned son, Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquitain, sirnamed the Black-Prince: faithfully and carefully collected from the best and most antient authors, domestick and foreign, printed books, manuscripts and records (1688)
• An elegy on the death of the Reverend Doctor John Goad late master of Merchant-taylors-school, London, who departed this life the 28th. of October, 1689 (1689)
• Euripidis tragoediae viginti, cum variis lectionibus (1694), by Euripides
• Anacreon Teius, poeta lyricus, summa cura & diligentia, ad fidem etiam vet. ms. Vatican. emendatus, etc. (1705), by Anacreon
• Homērou Ilias kai Odysseia kai eis autas scholia, ē exēgēsis, tōn palaiōn, etc. (1710), by Homer
• Spital Sermon, to which is added an Apology for the Orphans in Christ's Hospitall, written in 1679 (1703)
• The Good Old Way, or three brief Discourses tending to the Promotion of Religion, and the Glory, Peace, and Happiness of the Queen and her Kingdoms in Church and State: 1, The Happy Island; 2, A Sure Way to Victory; 3, The Case of the Church of England truly represented and fully vindicated (1703)

Works about Barnes

• "Barnes, Joshua," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Barnes, Joshua," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)