Author:John Oxenford

John Oxenford
(1812–1877)

John Oxenford

Works

Short works

• "The Divan" with Albert Richard Smith in Bentley's Miscellany (1844) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• "Viennese Legends" (1847) (external scan)
• "Legends of Salzburg" (1848) (external scan)
• "Legends of Gastein" (1848) (external scan)
• "Austrian Legends" (1848) (external scan)
• "Castle Schildheiss" (1848) (external scan)
• "The Giants’ Invasion" (1849) (external scan)
• "Sir Wigolais of the Wheel" (1849) (external scan)
• "Legends of Breslau" (1849) (external scan)
• "Legends of Leubus" (1849) (external scan)
• "Legends of Trachenberg" (1849) (external scan)
• "The Three Dragons" (1851) (external scan)
• "The Witch-Cats in Schleswig-Holstein" (1852) (transcription project)

Poetry

• "King Eric" (1844) (external scan)

As translator

• "A Bundle of German Legends" (1842) by Ludwig Bechstein (external scan)
• "Trojan, the Servian King" (1843) by Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki (external scan)
• Tales from the German (1844) by various authors, translated with C. A. Feiling (transcription project)
  • "Libussa" by Johann Karl August Musäus
  • "The Criminal from Lost Honour" by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
  • "The Wonders in the Spessart" by Karl Lebrecht Immermann
  • "The Sandman" by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
  • "Michael Kohlhaas" by Heinrich von Kleist
  • "The Moon" by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
  • "The Elementary Spirit" by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
  • "St. Cecilia; or, the Power of Music" by Heinrich von Kleist
  • "The New Paris" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • "The Jesuits' Church in G——" by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
• "The Spring at Templin" (1845) anonymous (external scan)
• "Selections from Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1845) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
• "Selections from Jean Paul Friederich Richter" (1845) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
• "Death and Immortality" (1845) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
• "Buried Alive" (1845) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
• "Dream of an Evil Spirit Before His Fall" (1845) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
• "Tales from the Spanish Dramatists: No. I. Prudence in Woman" (1846) Gabriel José López Téllez (external scan)
• "Tales from the Spanish Dramatists: No. II. None Below the King" (1846) by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla (external scan)
• "Tales from the Spanish Dramatists: No. III. The Mistress of Gomez Arias" (1846) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (external scan)
• "Tales from the Spanish Dramatists: The Speaking Secret" (1847) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (external scan)
• "Tales from the Spanish Dramatists: The Wonderful Magician" (1847) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (external scan)
• "The Alcade of Zalamea" (1847) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (external scan)
• Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret (1850) by Johann Peter Eckermann (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• History of the Insurrection in China (1853) by Joseph-Marie Callery and Melchior Yvan (external scan)
• Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life (1882) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

Poetry

• "Ada to Alexis, with a rose" (1834) by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (external scan)
• "Duet" (1835) from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (external scan)
• "Song of Grief" (1835) by Ignaz Franz Castelli (external scan)
• "Song of Hope" (1835) by Joseph Haydn (external scan)
• Extracts from Beethoven's Fidelio (1835) by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, Joseph Ferdinand Sonnleithner, and Georg Friedrich Treitschke (external scan)
• "The Brook's Lullaby" (1836) by Carl Gottlieb Reissiger (external scan)
• "The Letter of Flowers" (1836) by Aloys Schreiber (external scan)
• "A Spring Song" (1836) by Ulrich von Liechtenstein (external scan)
• "Expectation" (1836) by Felix Mendelssohn (external scan)
• "The Awakener in the Desert" (1842) by Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath
• "The Two Minstrel Bands" (1842) by Anton Alexander von Auersperg
• "The Joiner and his Mates" (1842) by Oskar von Sydow
• "The Rose of Jericho" (1842) by August Ferdinand Meyer (external scan)
• "Nero" (1842) by Friedrich von Sallet (external scan)
• "The Leviathan" (1842) by Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath (external scan)
• "The Blind Girl" (1842) by Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso (external scan)
• "The Lion’s Ride" (1842) by Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath (external scan)
• "Dolce far Niente" (1842) by Gustav Pfizer (external scan)
• "The Consecration of King Henry’s Weapons" (1843) by Gustav Benjamin Schwab (external scan)
• "The Leader’s Death" (1843) by Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath (external scan)
• "Scraps from Heinrich Heine" (1843) by Heinrich Heine (external scan)
• "The Bell of Happiness" (1843) by Johann Gabriel Seidl (external scan)
• "Elsbeth of Calw" (1843) by Gustav Benjamin Schwab (external scan)
• "The Dying Flower" (1843) by Friedrich Rückert (external scan)
• "The Three Indians" (1843) by Nikolaus Franz Niembsch von Strehlenau (external scan)
• "The Poet’s Self-Praise" (1844) by Friedrich Rückert (external scan)
• "The Cabin Boy" (1844) by Nikolaus Franz Niembsch von Strehlenau (external scan)
• "The Giant’s Toy" (1844) by Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso (external scan)
• "The Dead in the Sea" (1844) by Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath (external scan)
• "The Excluded One" (1844) by Anton Alexander von Auersperg (external scan)
• "Different Kinds of Grief" (1844) by Anton Alexander von Auersperg (external scan)
• "The Rat-Catcher" (1844) by Karl Joseph Simrock (external scan)
• "The Giant’s Death" (1844) by Friedrich von Sallet (external scan)
• "The Comet" (1844) by Friedrich von Sallet (external scan)
• "The Prisoner" (1845) by Nikolaus Franz Niembsch von Strehlenau (external scan)
• "The Nightingale’s Dream" (1845) by Ludwig Bechstein (external scan)
• "Ghasels" (1845) by Friedrich Rückert (external scan)
• "The Last Poet" (1845) by Anton Alexander von Auersperg (external scan)
• "Tears" (1845) by Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso (external scan)
• "The Mummelsee" (1845) by Ferdinand Alexander August Schnezler (external scan)
• "The Mummelsee’s Revenge" (1845) by Ferdinand Alexander August Schnezler (external scan)
• "The ‘9’ in the Weathercock" (1845) by Karl Joseph Simrock (external scan)
• "The Rose’s Funeral" (1845) by Friedrich von Sallet (external scan)
• "Romance" (1845) anonymous (external scan)
• "Old Romances Concerning Bernardo del Carpio" (1846) anonymous (external scan)
• "Sicilians" (1846) by Friedrich Rückert (external scan)
• "Spanish Ballads Relating to the Infants of Lara" (1846) anonymous (external scan)
• "Spanish Ballads Relating to King Alfonso the Wise" (1846) anonymous (external scan)
• "Spanish Ballads Relating to the Fall of Don Rodrigo" (1846) anonymous (external scan)
• "Jealousy" (1847) by Eduard Mautner (external scan)
• "A Scene from the Gardener’s Dog" (1847) by Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (external scan)
• "A Poet-Nature" (1847) by Alfred Meissner (external scan)
• "Poems on a Tour" (1851) by Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen (external scan)
• "The Waterman" (1852) traditional (transcription project)
• "The White Elephant" (1852) by Heinrich Heine (transcription project)
• "On Virginie’s Name-Day" (1852) by Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck (transcription project)
• "The Royal Pair" (1853) traditional (transcription project)
• "The Bee" (1853) by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (transcription project)
• "The Recognition" (1853) by Heinrich Heine (transcription project)
• "A Peruvian Hymn to the Goddess of Rain" (1853) by Johann Gottfried von Herder (transcription project)
• "The Bohemian Feast" (1853) by Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (transcription project)
• "Autumn Song" (1853) by Ludwig Tieck (transcription project)
• "Shepherd Song" (1853) by Zacharias Lund (transcription project)
• "Anno, 1839" (1853) by Heinrich Heine (transcription project)
• "King Wenzel's Escape" (1853) by Moritz Hartmann
• "The Ash Grove" (1873) traditional (external scan)
• "The Blackbird" (1873) traditional (external scan)
• "David of the White Rock" (1873) traditional (external scan)
• "Megan’s Fair Daughter" (1873) traditional (external scan)
• "Men of Harlech" (1873) traditional
• "New-Year’s Eve" (1873) traditional (external scan)
• "On This Day" (1873) traditional (external scan)
• "Over the Stone" (1873) traditional (external scan)
• "The Trumpet Sounding Loudly" (1873) traditional (external scan)
• "Weep Not, I Pray" (1873) traditional (external scan)
• "The Sentinel" (1885) by Wilhelm Hauff; translated with Karl Knortz

Musical compositions

• Outward Bound: A Cantata (1873) (external scan)
• The Soldier’s Legacy: An Opera Da Camera (external scan)

Works about Oxenford

• "John Oxenford," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Oxenford, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Oxenford, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.