John Anster - Xeniola:  Poems

Preface Time Alfred Elegy The Poet's Haunt The Everlasting Rose Home Mirth and Grief - an Allegory "A Dream Remembered in a Dream" "No Lute's Enchanting Minstrelsy" Ballad Dirge (from the Gaelic) "If I Might Choose" Matilda Emblems Oh! If, As Arabs Fancy Hymn (from the German) Lines on the Death of the Princess Charlotte Ode to Fancy Solitude To --- (Fragment) Reverie Triumph of Music Latin Translationof the Poem Entitled "Time" Memory (from the German) Ranz des Vaches (from the German of Schiller) The Pilgrimage (A Drama) The Five Oaks of Dallwitz (from Korner) Gipsey Song (from the German)

Other Works: Goethe's Faust      Part One      Part Two The Fairy Child

John Anster was born in Charleville, Co. Cork in 1793. He was educated at Trinity from which he obtained his BA in 1816. He converted from Catholicism to Church of Ireland. Admitted to the Bar in 1824, he eventually became Professor of Civil Law at Trinity. He was a frequent contributor to"Dublin University Magazine," "Blackwoods" as well as the "North British Review". His was the first translation of Goethe's "Faust" made by and Irishman.      The present work was published in 1837

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