Anster, John (M)

Surname: Anster
Forename(s): John
b. 1793. d. 9 June 1867. Nationality: Irish. VIAF.
Poet, translator, and Regius Professor of Civil Law at Trinity College Dublin. Alternative signature: “Dr. Anster.” Born in Charleville, Co. Cork. Studied law at Trinity College, Dublin. Called to the bar in 1824. Took doctor of laws in 1825. Published a collection of poems in 1815, but had it suppressed soon after. Translated Faust. Poetry volumes include Ode to Fancy, with Other Poems (1815), Lines on the Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales (1818), Poems with Some Translations from the German (1819). Biographical information: ODNB. (JS)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 17
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Murderess. From the German of Schiller 1818-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8242
The Black Yager’s Song. From the German of Körner 1818-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8241
To Ebert. From the German of Klopstock 1818-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8240
Elegy 1818-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8311
The Interview. From Schiller 1819-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8314
Our Joys. From Goëthe 1819-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8313
The Elements. From Bürger 1819-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8315
The Bride of Corinth 1819-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 8374
Glorvina’s Warning 1819-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8375
Eternity. A Fragment. From the German of Haller 1819-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7743
The Five Oaks of Dallwitz. From the German of Körner 1819-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 7740
Sonnet 1820-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8522
Sonnet 1820-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8524
The Everlasting Rose 1837-05-06 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 3483
The Everlasting Rose 1839-12-07 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 3765
The Maiden from Afar 1865-01 Macmillan’s Magazine Translator 14247
Mogha Neid. A Celtic Fragment 1865-07 Macmillan’s Magazine Poet 14188