Edwin Atherstone

The fall of Nineveh di John Martin, 1829

Edwin Atherstone (Nottingham, 17 aprile 1788 – Bath, 29 gennaio 1872) è stato un poeta e drammaturgo britannico.

Atherstone scrisse il lungo poema epico The fall of Niniveh (Distruzione di Ninive) composto di 30 libri. Sua seconda opera magna e poema Israel in Egypt (Israel in Egitto). Le opere di poeta sono scritte in blank verse.

Bibliografia

• The fall of Nineveh, The first six books, by Edwin Atherstone, Baldwin and Cradock, London 1828.
• The fall of Nineveh. A poem by Edwin Atherstone. Second edition: dilligently corrected and otherwise improved. In two volumes, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, London 1868
• Israel in Egypt. A poem by Edwin Atherstone, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, London 1861.
• The last days of Herculaneum and Abradates and Panthea. Poems by Edwin Atherstone, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London 1821.
• Dramatic works of Edwin Atherstone. Edited by his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Atherstone, E. Stock, London 1888.
• The sea-kings in England: an historical romance of the time of Alfred by the Author of the "Fall of Niniveh", In Three Volumes, Robert Cadell, Edinburgh 1830.
• The handwriting on the wall, a story by Edwin Atherstone, In Three Volumes, Richard Bentley, London 1858.

Collegamenti esterni

• Opere di Edwin Atherstone, su MLOL, Horizons Unlimited.
• (EN) Opere di Edwin Atherstone, su Open Library, Internet Archive.