Edwin Atherstone
anglický básnik
Narodenie	1788
Úmrtie	1872
Biografický portál

Edwin Atherstone (* 1788 – † 1872) bol anglický básnik, predstaviteľ romantizmu^[1].

Jeho najväčšie dielo je epos The Fall of Nineveh^[2] (Pád Ninive), ktorý je epická dráma podľa vzoru Homéra aj Vergília, napísaná v noblesnom klasickom štýle s výrazným poetickým akcentom. Epos pojednáva o tom, ako hlavné mesto Asýrie Ninive bolo vydrancované spojenými vojenskými silami Médov a Babylonanov.

• 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.

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2. ↑ Text eposu