An Athletics Compendium

Poetty L 249 - 260 Scott, Walter 249 The lady of the lake: a poem. Edinburgh; 1810. BL: 643.1.12 Canto V includes the burghers' sports at Stirling Castle, when thDeouglas winscontests at casting the bar and putting the stone. Shewan, Alexander 250 Homeric Games at an ancient St. Andrews: an epyllium edited from a comparativelymodern papyrus and shattered by means otfhe Higher Cridcism. Edinburgh: James Thin1, 911. xii, 158p BL: 012314.k.l0 A satirical poem in Greek hexameters, with aEnnglish prose version. Somerville, William 251 Hobbinol, or, The rural games: a burlesque poem, in blank verse. Dublin: Faulkner, 1740. vi, 53p BL; 1509/644 A burlesque poem in blank verse which describes the kind of rural festival which eventually developedinto the modern athletics meeting. Statins, PubliusPapinius 252Works; with anEnglish translation by J. H. Mozley. London: Heinemann, 1928. 2 vols. (Loeb classical library) Text inLatin andEnglish on oppositepages BL: 2282.d.l03 Book VI of the Thebaidhas adescription of the first Nemean Games, witshome of the most detaiolefdall classical accountsof athletics, includinfgoot racing and the discus throw. Virgil 253 The /Eneid of Virgil in Englisbhlank verse translatedby J. Miller. London: 1863. BL: 11375.bb.33 Book V describes the funeral games of Anchises, including a footrace. Webb, Francis 254 Francis Webb: collected poemspre/face by Herbert Read. London: Angus & Robertson, 1969. ix, 270p; pbk ISBN: 0-207-13612-2 BL: X:958/22838 Includes 'This runner'. Whitman, Walt 255 The complete poems Wofalt Whitman / edited by Francis Murphy. Harmondsworth: Penguin Education, 1975. 892p; index; pbk ISBN: 0-14-080811-6 BL: X.908/40133 Includes 'The runner'. Wilson, George 256 The quizzical quorum, Torh.e fortunes anmd isfortunes of the BlackBeaks of Blackheath: naew ballad. 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged showing how they stopped a poor labouring man, nameGdeorge Wilson, with a comical warrant, whilst walking upon the King's highway. London: Wm. Hone, 1814? 1 sheet BL: 806.k.16(50) Possibly writtenby Wilson himself. Wooldridge, lan 257 Thoughts on watching a great hammer thrower: and other poems fromthe press box. Woking: Surrey Poetry Circle, 1980. 4 unbound leaves BL: X.950/18364 Contain the poems 'For I'ma jolly jogger', 'Thoughts on watching a great hammtheror wer', 'Ode on a runner at Crystal Palace', 'Lines on Brian Hooper' (the pole vauiter), 'The joy of sprinting', and 'Athletics is my joy, my one and only love'. % Poetry — Anthologies 258 Annalia Dubrensia: being a collection of verses by various writers upon the yeerly celebratiofnMr R. Dover's Olimpick Games upon CotswHoilldls / edited by M. W. London: Matthew Walbancke, 1636. BL; B.630(l) The 55poets who write in honour of the Games include Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, Sir William Davenant and Thomas Heywood. 259 Poetical miscellanies, consisting of original poeamnds translations / btyhe best hands.London: Mr. Steele, 1714. 318p BL: 1077.1.26 Includes 'The smock race at Finglas', describing an event for women itnhe annual games outside Dublin. 260 Pastorals, epistles, odes, and other original poems, with translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho / Ambrose Philips. London: 1748. BL: 11632.a.28 This collection includes Philips' translation of two of Pindar's Olympic Odes, entitled 'The First Olympionique' and 'The Second Olympionique'. [ 175 ]