George Ogle

DMI number:

1979

Gender:

Male

Born:

1704

Died:

1746

ODNB:

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20608

Comments:

George Ogle (bap. 1704, d. 1746): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20608 Attributions sources: The Loves of Hero and Leander (1728, ESTC T102931); Basia Joannis Secundi Nicolai Hagensis: or The Kisses of Joannes Secundus (1731, ESTC T83609); Ogle, Gualtherus and Griselda: or, the Clerk of Oxford’s Tale (1741, ESTC T75509). ODNB entry: '[Ogle] published imitations of Anacreon, Sappho, and other Greek poets in James Sterling's Loves of Hero and Leander (1728)'. ’Translations from various Greek authors’ has a separate dated titlepage, and poems presented in this section as being by Ogle have been treated as his verse, and his authorship rated 'confident'. ODNB entry: '[Ogle] collaborated also with Elijah Fenton and Edward Ward, to translate the sixteenth-century Latin Basia (Kisses) of Janus Secundus (1731)'. Unless attributed to Fenton or Ward, all verse presented in this volume has been treated as by Ogle, and his authorship rated 'confident'. Ogle edited Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Modernis'd by Several Hands (3 vols., 1741), and all verse presented in these volumes as being by Ogle has been treated as his verse, and his authorship rated 'absolute'.