Author:George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne
(1525–1577)

George Gascoigne

Works

• The Divorce of a Lover
• A hundreth Sundrie Floures bound up in one small Posie. Gathered partely (by translation) in the fyne outlandish Gardens of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarke, Ariosto and others; and partely by Invention out of our owne fruitfull Orchardes in Englande, Yelding Sundrie Savours of tragical, comical and moral discourse, bothe pleasaunt and profitable, to the well-smelling noses of learned Readers (1572)
• Notes of Instruction, for making English verse (1575)
• The Glasse of Government (1575)
• The Steele Glasse (1576)
• The Fruites of Warres (1575)
• Gascoigne’s Voyage into Hollande (1575)
• Pleasant Tale of Hemetes the Heremite (1575)
• Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or ryme in English, written at the request of Master Edouardo Donati (1575)
• A Remembrance of the wel-imployed life and godly end of George Gaskoigne, Esquire (1577)

Translations

• The Supposes (1566), translated from I Suppositi by Ariosto
• Jocasta (1566) translated from Euripides
• The noble art of venerie or hunting: wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and kill euery one of them (1611), from La venerie (1573) by Jacques Du Fouilloux external link

Works about Gascoigne

• "George Gascoign," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (p. 63), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Gascoigne, George," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Gascoigne, George," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Gascoigne, George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)