Author:John Oxenford

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John Oxenford
(1812–1877)

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English dramatist, translator, and writer

Works

Plays

Twice Killed: A Farce in One Act (c. 1835) (external scan)
The Leghorn Bonnet (1852)

Operas

Aminta, or, a Match for a Magistrate (1852)
The Soldier’s Legacy: An Opera Da Camera (external scan)

Musical compositions

Outward Bound: A Cantata (1873) (external scan)

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)
"German Poems, Relating to the Defeats of the Romans in Germany" (1848) (external scan)
"Castle Schildheiss" (1848) (external scan)
"The Giants’ Invasion" (1849) (external scan)
"German Poems, Relating to Alaric and Attila" (1849) (external scan)
"Sir Wigolais of the Wheel" (1849) (external scan)
"Legends of Breslau" (1849) (external scan)
"The Mythology and Magic of Lapland" (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)
"A Street Reverie" (1860) (external scan)
"A Slight Mistake" (1860) (external scan)

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)
"The Death Watch" (1847) by Clara Maria Regina Mundt (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)
"Detached Brevities from Jean Paul" (1847) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
"The Dream of a Mad Lady" (1847) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
"Brevities from Jean Paul" (1847) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
"The Eclipse of the Moon" (1848) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
"The Death of an Angel" (1848) by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (external scan)
The Hemlock Draught (1849) by Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (scan needed)
The Reigning Favourite (1849) by Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé and Augustin Eugène Scribe (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)
"Drusus" (1848) by Karl Joseph Simrock (external scan)
"Hermann" (1848) by Hans Ferdinand Massmann (external scan)
"Song of Victory After the Defeat of Varus" (1848) by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (external scan)
"Thusnelda" (1848) by Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen (external scan)
"Alaric" (1849) by Heinrich Wilhelm August Stieglitz (external scan)
"Alaric’s Grave" (1849) by August von Platen-Hallermünde (external scan)
"The Sword of War" (1849) by August Nodnagel (external scan)
"Attila’s Grave" (1849) by Karl Ferdinand Haltaus (external scan)
"The Fish of the Rhine" (1849) by Ludwig Bechstein (scan needed) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
"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
"My Dream Through All the Night Art Thou" by Carl Friedrich Gärtner (1854) (external scan)
"Don Alonzo de Tabera" (1855) by Heinrich Smidt (external scan)
"The Blind Countess" (1860) by Günther Nicol (external scan)
"Wake Not the Dead" (1860) by Johann Matthias Firmenich-Richartz (external scan)
"The Sad Return" (1860) by Christian Wilhelm Ludwig Eduard Brauer (external scan)
"Fare Thee Well" (c. 1865) by Ludwig Uhland (scan needed) (external scan)
"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

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.

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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