Author:John Hookham Frere

John Hookham Frere
(1769–1846)

John Hookham Frere

Works

• Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft of Stowmarket in Suffolk, Harness and Collar Makers. Intended to comprise the most interesting particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table’ (cantos i. and ii.) (1817)
• Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft of Stowmarket in Suffolk, Harness and Collar Makers. Intended to comprise the most interesting particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table’ (cantos iii. and iv.) (1818)
• Fables for Five-Years-Old (1830)
• The Frogs (1839)
• Theognis Restitutus. The personal history of the poet Theognis, deduced from an analysis of his existing fragments. (1842) (external scan)

Translations

• Aristophanes. A Metrical Version of the Acharnians, the Knights, and the Birds, in the last of which a vein of peculiar humour and character is for the first time detected and developed (1840)

  The Acharnians, and two other Plays of Aristophanes (1909), part of Everyman's Library. (transcription project)

  The Acharnians

  The Knights

  The Birds

• Psalms, &c [1848?]

Works about Frere

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