Percy E. Pinkerton
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Percy E. Pinkerton was an English translator.
Pinkerton published some volumes of his own poetry: Galeazo, a Venetian Episode: with other Poems (Venice and London, 1886), which was praised by John Addington Symonds[1]; Adriatica (1894) and Nerina, a lyrical drama in three acts (Cambridge, 1927). He also wrote for the Magazine of Art,[2] and in 1889 edited Christopher Marlowe's plays. However most of his literary work consisted of English translations of European music and literature. He was a member of the late-Victorian Lutetian Society, a group dedicated to unexpurgated translations of the works of Émile Zola which also included Ernest Dowson, Havelock Ellis, Arthur Symons, Victor Plarr and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. [3] He translated other works from German, Italian, French, and Russian.
He may be the 'Percy Edward Pinkerton' who died 31 August 1946, aged 91, at Ealing House, Porthleven, Cornwall.[4]
[edit] Translations
German books
- William Müller, Field-Marshal Count Moltke, 1800-1878, 1879
- Heinrich Düntzer, The Life of Schiller, 1883
Italian books
- Matteo Bandello, Novellieri Italiani. Twelve stories selected and done into English with a memoir of the author, 1892
French books
- Memoirs of Constant, the Emperor Napoleon's head valet, 1896
- Émile Zola, Restless House, 1924
- Emile Zola, "Pot Bouille" 1894-95 (Lutetian House- London)
Russian books
- Mikhail Artsybashev, Sanine, 1914
- Mikhail Artsybashev, The millionaire, 1915
Operas and cantatas
- Giacomo Puccini, La bohème, 1896. Performed for radio in 1930[5]
- Puccini, The witch-dancers, performed at Manchester in 1897[6]
- Niccola Spinelli, A Basso Porto, performed at Brighton in 1900[7]
- Franz Schubert, Songs, with pianoforte accompaniment
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, The new life, 1902
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Phoebus and Pan
- Francis Poulenc
[edit] References
- ^ "It has individuality: the mark of a true poet, of a finely-gifted nature." See Kirk, A supplement to Allibone's critical dictionary, 1891
- ^ 'Cecil van Haanen', Magazine of Art 10 (1887), pp. 1-6; 'Ludwig Passini: A Painter f Modern Life', Magazine of Art 10 (1887), pp. 127-32
- ^ Denise Merkle, The Lutetian Society, TTR: traduction, terminologie, re'daction 16:2 (2003)
- ^ The Times, 5 September, 1946
- ^ The Times, 29 January 1930
- ^ The Times, 1 April 1955
- ^ The Times, 15 November 1900
[edit] External links
- Sanine, available at Project Gutenberg.
- Works by or about Percy E. Pinkerton in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
