Henry Ellershaw

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Henry Ellershaw,  Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ Once, in less than two hours, he rendered an Italian song into English verse which fitted the music.
An admirable composer in Greek and Latin, Kynaston was too fastidious a writer to make any contribution to scholarly literature commensurate with his capacities. His best-known book is an edition of Theocritus with English notes (Oxford, 1869; 5th edit. 1910) . His other works are: 1. 'Nucipruna: exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse,' 12mo, 1873. 2. 'Sermons preached in the College Chapel, Cheltenham,' 1876. 3. 'Poetæ Grseci,' extracts with English notes, 1879. 4.
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