Chapman, Matthew James (M)

Surname: Chapman
Forename(s): Matthew James
b. 1796. d. 15 November 1865. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and translator. Alternative signature: Mr. Chapman. Born in Barbados, West Indies. Educated at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge. Biographical information: Curran Index; Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p.91. (AC, CC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 24
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Song of Demodocus the Bard Before Ulysses, in the Court of King Alcinous. Odyssey. Lib. VIII 1834-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11912
Lament for Adonis 1835-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11466
Lament for Bion.—Moschus 1835-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11467
Prometheus Bound. Translated from Æschylus 1836-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11874
The Eumenides 1837-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11883
II. (“Art thou so soon forgotten? thou, the loved”) 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 12002
V. (“Sisters, unmothered in your tender years”) 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 12005
IV. (“Oft in Hesperian climes, when dewy eve”) 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 12004
I. (“Who that has gazed upon Orion’s Belt”) 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 12001
VI. To the Rev. Dr Wordsworth, Master of Trinity 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 12006
III. (“She is not beautiful, but lovely—grace”) 1837-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 12003
II. (“Hush’d is the Shepherd’s voice that often woke”) 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14621
V. (“It is a glorious thing to feel secure”) 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14624
IV. (“When England’s Morning Star of song was set”) 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14623
III. (“Look how from yonder Mountain’s rocky urns”) 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14622
VI. (“Lamented Youth! so frank and brave! so young”) 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14625
I. (“Mute is the Minstrel’s wonder-moving shell!”) 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14620
Augusta Victrix 1837-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11917
III. (“Not seld of yore, ’tis said, Calabrian eyes”) 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14730
II. (“Poor stricken deer! for whom the world had not”) 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14729
I. (“There are some hearts that never do grow old”) 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14728
The Alcestis of Euripides 1838-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11686
Two Sonnets by Mr Chapman 1838-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11963
The Eumenidies of Æschylus 1839-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11560