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Dafydd Glyn Jones
Dafydd Glyn Jones (born 1941)

lexicographer, linguist

  • Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle, University of Oxford
Un o wŷr y medra
Agoriad yr oes
The Welsh Academy English-Welsh dictionary
Seneddau a sofraniaeth
Rhywbeth Yn Trwblo
Cyfrinach Ynys Brydain
John Morris-Jones a'r "Cymro dirodres"
Y bedwaredd gainc
Wasg Gymraeg Ddoe a Heddiw, Y
Wele Wlad
John Morris-Jones
Hen Ddalennau
Gwlad y Brutiau
Galwn Ôl
Bosworth a'r Tuduriaid
B'le mae Ewrop?
Bully, Taffy, a Paddy
Dafydd Ddu Eryri
Problem Prifysgol a Phapurau Eraill
DRAGWNIAID YN Y DRE. Digwyddiad o 1801.
Mikhail Kuzmin
Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936)

composer, linguist, translator, poet

  • Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Sobranie stikhov =
Proza i ésseistika
Dnevnik 1934 goda
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡. Iz perepiski
Selected prose & poetry
Izbrannye proizvedenii͡a︡
Selected writings
[Proza
Forel' razbivaet led
Paraboly =
Komedii͡a︡ o Evdokii iz Geliopoli͡a︡
Nezdeshnie vechera
Plavai︠u︡shchie puteshestvui︠u︡shchie
Dnevnik 1905-1907
Zanaveshennye kartinki
Chudesnai͡a︡ zhiznʹ Iosifa Balʹzamo, grafa Kaliostro
Mikhail Kuzmin
[Tretʹi͡a︡ kniga rasskazov
Kuranty li︠u︡bvi
Kryl︠i︡a
[Sobranie sochinenīĭ]
Taly  sled = Melted track
Сети
Vozhatyĭ
Stikhotvorenii͡a︡
Pervai︠a︡ kniga razskazov
D.I. Mitrokhin
Talyĭ sled
Seti
Komedii
Osennii︠a︡ Ozera
Die Schwärmer
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡
Vozhatyĭ
Teatr
Vtorai͡a︡ kniga rasskazov
Stikhi i proza
Kryl'i︠a︡
Les ailes
Novyĭ Gulʹ
Glini︠a︡nyi︠a︡ golubki
Paraboly
Seti
Zanaveshennye kartinki
Ditia i roza
Komediia o Martiniane
O Aleksee cheloveke Bozhʹem
Geschichten
Taten des grossen Alexander
Vtornik Mėri
Kuranty liubvi
Wings; prose and poetry
Arena
Graf Kaliostro
Tikhiĭ strazh ; Babushkina shkatulka
Tikhiĭ strazh
Uslovnosti
Nesobrannai︠a︡ proza
Vtornik Mėri
Aleksandrīiskīi︠a︡ pi︠e︡sni
Uslovnosti
Krylʹi︠a︡
Podzemnye ruchʹi
Wings
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ i poėmy
D.I. Mítrochin
Pervai͡a︡ kniga rasskazov
Krylia
Studies in the life and works of Mixail Kuzmin
Uslovnosti
Osenniia Ozera
Krylʹi︠a︡
Die Schwärmer
Plavai︠u︡shchie puteshestvui︠u︡shchie
Sobranie sochinenīĭ
Talyĭ sled =
Der zärtliche Jossif
Venet͡s︡īanskīe bezumt͡s︡y
Pervai︠a︡ [-tretʹi︠a︡] kniga razskazov
Novella serebri︠a︡nogo veka
Nezdeshnie vechera
Glini︠a︡nye golubki
Dnevnik 1908-1915
Jaroslav Vrchlický
Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853-1912)

linguist, poet, translator, pedagogue, playwright, librettist, literary critic, journalist, politician, teacher, dramaturge

  • Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Má nejdražší přítelkyně
O knihách a lidech
O knihách a lidech
Satanella
Legenda o sv. Prokopu
Bar-Kochba
Studie a podobizny
Za trochu lásky
Čarovná zahrada
Dopisy Jaroslava Vrchlického s p. Janem Blokšou
Eklogy a písně
Dopisy Jaroslava Vrchlického se Sofií Podlipskou z let 1875-1876
Votivní desky: poslední zlomky epopeje : básně Jaroslava Vrchlického, 1899-1902
Staré zvěsti
Jaroslav Vrchlicḱý - Eduard Albert
Kytka ballad, romancí a legend
Legenda o svatém Prokopu
Selské ballady
Studie a podobizny
Gedichte von Jaroslav Vrchlický
Z niv poesie národní a umělé
Souborné vydání básnických spis
Symfonie
Praha
Noc na Karlštejně
Mythy
Sonety samotáře
Nove studie a podobizny
Rabínská moudros
Nové básně epické
Šárka
Laska a smrt
Vrchlický [pseud.] v dopisech
Živý oheň
Izbrannye stikhi / I︠A︡roslav Vrkhlit︠s︡kiĭ ; perevod s cheshskogo K.D. Balʹmonta
Kytka balad
Česká krajina
Meč Damoklův
Izbrannye stikhi / I︠A︡roslav Vrkhlit︠s︡kiĭ ; perevod s cheshskogo K.D. Balʹmonta
Žeň času
Výbor z básní Jaroslava Vrchlického
Intimní lyrika
Král a ptáčník
Písně poutníka
eské ballady
Midasovy uši
Nové básně epicke
Poutí k Eldoradu
Host na zemi
Šárka
Korálové ostrovy
Nové studie a podobizny
Symfonie
Kalný krystal
Duch a svět
Symfonie
Okna v bouři
Hudba v duši
V uchu Dionysově
Bodláčí z Parnasu
Z niv poesie národní a umělé
Duch a svět
Píseň Života
Izbrannye stikhi / I︠A︡roslav Vrkhlit︠s︡kiĭ ; perevod s cheshskogo K.D. Balʹmonta ; [neskolʹko vstupitelʹnykh slov o I︠A︡. Vrkhlit︠s︡kom I︠A︡na Rokity]
Poutí k Eldoradu
Jessika
Hilarion
Barevné střepy
Duha na zemi
Soubor dramatických spisů Jaroslava Vrchlického
Před branami Eldoráda
Než zmlknu docela
Západy
Trojí políbení
Brevíř moderního člověka
Dopisy Jaroslava Vrchlickeho s p. Janem Bloksou
Na domácí pudě
Švanda Dudák
V uchu Dionysiove
Zpěvy husitské
Der Hohe Rabbi Löw
Julian Apostata
Pomsta Catullova
Eklogy a písně
Wybór poezji
Čarovná zahrada
Z hlubin
Smrť Odyssea
Básně
Motýli všech barev
Jaroslav Vrchlický [pseud.]
Knížata
Král a ptáčník
Dojmy a rozmary
Rabínská moudrosť
Z cizích Parnassů
Portrety básníkův
Spisy
Anthologie z básní Jaroslava Vrchlického
Vrchlický v dopisech
Vittoria Colonna
Druhá anthologie z básní Jaroslava Vrchlického
Izbrannye stikhi / I︠A︡roslav Vrkhlit︠s︡kiĭ ; perevod s cheshskogo K.D. Balʹmonta
Co život dal
Selské balady
Epponina
Souborné vydání básnických spis
Pietro Aretino
Anthologie z básní
Básnické dílo
Farbige Scherben
Dramatická díla
Korálové ostrovy ; Skryté zdroje ; Zaváté stezky ; Strom života ; Meč Damoklův
Než zmlknu docela
Midasovy uši
Midasovy uši
Jessika
Poutí k Eldorádu ; Strom života
Píšťala Panova
Než zmlknu docela--
Trilogie o Simsonovi
Epické básně
Život a smrt
Eklogy a písně
Moje sonata
Vlasti a míru
Anthologie z básní Jaroslava Vrchlického (1875-1892)
Brothers ... Vaclav and Boleslav ..
Žeň času
Selské balady
Druhých deset básní Jaroslava Vrchlického [pseud.]
Zahrada slov
Bodláčí z Parnasu
Duha na zemi
Marie Calderonová
Kočičí král
Poesie francouzská nové doby
Písně poutníka
Na domácí půdě
Sv. Vojtěch
Pietro Aretino
V uchu Dionysově
Padesát let ivota Jaroslava Vrchlického
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874-1941)

linguist, poet, translator, journalist, literary critic, physician, pediatrician

  • Jagiellonian University
Znaszli ten kraj?
Ludzie żywi
Boy-Żeleński
Boy-Żeleński
Boy o Krakowie
Brewerje
Boy o Krakowie
Balzak
Znaszli ten kraj?
O Krakowie
Dziewice konsystorskie
1001 noc teatru
W perspektywie czasu
Marysieńka Sobieska
O Wyspiańskim
Listy
Młoda Polska
Młoda Polska
Dziewice konsystorskie
Romanse cieniów
Bronzownicy
Szkice o literaturze francuskiej
Słówka
Mędrca odiem
Okno za życie
Słówka
Obrachunki Fredrowskie
Pijane dziecko we mgle
Molier
Flirt z Melpomeną
O literaturze niemoralnej
Tadeusz Żeleński Boy o literaturze niemoralnej
Tetralogia z kajetu pensjonarki
Obrachunki Fredrowskie
Marysieńka Sobieska
Słówka
Śmiech, uśmiech i zgroza
Marysieńka Sobieska
Nowe piosenki
Perfumy i krew kokrotkie spiecia
Nasi okupanci
Nasi okupanci i inne szkice publicystyczne
Mędrca okiem ..
Znaszli ten kraj?..
Listy
Słowa - cienkie i grube
Reflektorem w mrok
Pisma
Szkice o literaturze francuskiej
O Mickiewiczu
Dziewice konsystorskie
Bronzownicy
O Balzaku
Szopka krakowska "Zielonego balonika,"
Pieśń o Rolandzie
Fūtarō Yamada
Fūtarō Yamada (1922-2001)

lexicographer, linguist, physician

  • Tokyo Medical University
Ningen rinjū zukan
Senchūha dōran nikki
Senchūha yamiichi nikki
Senchuha mushikera nikki
Shōwa zenki no seishun
Zenbu yoroku
Senchūha fukkō nikki
The Kouga ninja scrolls
Senchūha yakeato nikki
Kōka ninpōchō
Rasupūchin ga kita
Dōjitsu dōkoku
Yagyū ninpōchō
Ato senkai no banmeshi
Waga suiri shōsetsu zeronen
山田風太郎育児日記
Iga ninpōchō
Gedō ninpōchō
Tachibana denraiki
Gu
Yamada Fūtarō ninpō zenshū
Imawa no kiwa ni iubeki ichidaiji wa nashi
Shingen ninpōchō
Kōga ninpōchō
同日同刻
Senchūha yakeato nikki
Fūzanbō furo takiuta
Hideyoshi wa itsu shitta ka
婆沙羅
Ningen banji uso bakkari
Zushi-ke no akurei
戦中派虫けら日記
おんな牢秘抄
風々院風々風々居士山田風太郎に聞く
Ninpō Chūshingura
Meiji dantōdai
Shinkyoku hōkai
Hakkenden
Edo ninpōchō
幕末妖人伝
Mo chieh chuan sheng
Kunoichi nimpōchō
Uminari ninpōchō
Arinsukoku denki
山田風太郎忍法帖短篇全集
Kenki to yūjo
Les huit chiens des Satomi
Nahum Sokolow
Nahum Sokolow (1859-1936)

linguist, journalist, translator, poet, politician, biographer

Barukh Shpinozah u-zemano
Sefer Soḳolov
Ishim
Perzenlekhkaytn un folk
Perzenlekhḳeytn
Perzenlekhḳeyṭn un folḳ
History of Zionism, 1600-1918
Zionism in the Bible
History of Zionism
Sefer ha-yovel...Naḥum Soḳoloṿ
History of Zionism, 1600-1918
The new Jew
History of Zionism, 1600-1918
History of Zionism, 1600-1918 Volume 2
Ketavim nivḥarim
Zionism in the Bible
Oysgeṿehlṭe shrifṭen
Be-marʼot ha-ḳeshet
Perzenlekhḳayṭn un folḳ
Le-maranan ṿe-rabanan
Armagedon =
History of Zionism, 1600-1918; Volume 1
Śinʼat ʻolam le-ʻam ʻolam
'Sinʼat ʻolam le-ʻam ʻolam
Yalkut masot
History of Zionism
Perzenlekhkayṭn
Erets ḥemdah
נעורי הנשר, מגבורי ישראל
Tokhen ha-Tsiyonut
ha-Tsofeh le-vet Yiśraʾel
געאגראפישער אטלאס
האני הקבוצי
Ishim
Tražikomedia o yorar y riir
Naye praḳṭishe meṭhode der Englishen shprakhe
Masaʻ be-Iṭalyah
ha-Ḥeshbon ha-aḥaron
Ketavim nivḥarim le-zekher ḥag ḥatsi ha-yovel li-feʻulato ha-sifrutit (639-664)
Idishe froy
Naye praḳtịshe meṭhode der Englishen shprakhe ...
Naye praḳṭishe methode der Englishen shprakhe ...
Neʾum ha-petiḥah shel Naḥum Soḳolov, neśi ha-Histadrut ha-Tsiyonit
The Palestine question
Hibbath Zion (the love for Zion)
ha-Matsav ha-nokheḥi shel ha-Yehudim ba-ʻolam
Oysgeṿehlṭe shrifṭen
Oysgev Đehlt Đe shrift Đen
Le-maranan ve-rebanan, sefer kolel shitah mesuderet u-berurah ʻal devar ʻavodat ha-umah veha-zyoniut ha-shelemah
Ketavim nivḥarim
Sefer ha-yovel shel "ha-Tsefirah"
ʼĪshīm
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)

linguist, poet, politician, translator, journalist, literary critic, biographer

  • Edinburgh College of Art, Langholm Academy
Lucky poet
Correspondence
Scottish eccentrics [by] Hugh MacDiarmid
A drunk man looks at the thistle
Poems
Northern numbers
Contemporary Scottish studies
Raucle Tongue
Aesthetics in Scotland
The Hugh MacDiarmid anthology: poems in Scots and English
Albyn
New selected letters
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse
The thistle rises
The terrible crystal
Hugh Macdiarmid
Contemporary Scottish studies
The socialist poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Annals of the five senses and other stories, sketches, and plays
The revolutionary art of the future
Sangschaw
Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
Second hymn to Lenin, and other poems
The Hugh MacDiarmid-George Ogilvie letters
The ugly birds without wings
The company I've kept
In memoriam James Joyce
Albyn: Shorter Books and Monographs (Lives & Letters: MacDiarmid 2000)
Three hymns to Lenin
More collected poems
Selected prose
Living Scottish poets
Lucky Poet (Lives & Letters: MacDiarmid 2000)
Raucle Tongue: Volume 2 (Lives & Letters: Macdiarmid 2000)
Hugh MacDiarmid Selected Poems
A Clyack-Sheaf
What's wrong with the "Songs of the Hebrides"
The complete poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Cornish heroic song for Valda Trevlyn and Once in a Cornish garden
Scots unbound and other poems
Sorabji symposium
Poems [of] Hugh MacDiarmid, and a pibroch on his 80th birthday
When an old man dies the commonest cliche of his obituarists is: "We will not see his like again"
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] (C. M. Grieve)
The future of Scots poetry
Glasgow 1960
Virgilium vidi tantum
Stony limits and Scots unbound
Neil Gun and Scottish renaissance
An afternoon with Hugh MacDiarmid
Miracle in Edinburgh
The correspondence between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean
Song of the seraphim
Lucky Poet
A lap of honour
The Oxford book of Scottish verse chosen by John MacQueen and Tom Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid and David Jones
Song of the seraphim
More collected poems
The islands of Scotland
A vision of Scotland
Scotland - vive la difference
Direadh I, II and III
On the asportation of the Scone stone
The great McGonagall
Second hymn to Lenin
John Knox
Exports of pottery from the United Kingdom, 1948-1968
David Hume
Metaphysics and poetry
Selected poems
The fire of the spirit
Poems to paintings by William Johnstone, 1933
Introduction [to an exhibition of the work of William McCance]
In the Shetland Islands
Poetry like the hawthorn
A political speech
The poetry of Norman MacCaig
Mayakovskii
Great malt whiskies
The man of (almost) independent mind
The significance of R.E. Muirhead
Sydney Goodsir Smith
The lucky bag
John Montague's Ulster
" And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul"
Cunninghame Graham
Tribute to Harry Miller
A lap of honour
The islands of Scotland: Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shetlands
Separatism
Scottish universal
The master-voyager of our age
Scottish arts and letters
Burns today and tomorrow
Cranks never make good democrats
A note on some foreign translations of Burns
The ugly birds without wings
When the birds come back to Rhiannon
Speaking for Scotland
Poetry like the hawthorn
To circumjack Cencrastus
Selected poems [of] Hugh MacDiarmid
Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
On a raised beach
Second hymn to Lenin, and other poems
The eemis stane
The breckanry
Two poems by Hugh MacDiarmid
Whuchulls
An apprentice angel
With the herring fishers
The battle continues
First hymn to Lenin, and other poems
ha-Barḳan ṿeha-gaviʻa
On a raised beach
The blaward and the skelly
Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid & Norman MacCaig
O wha's been here afore me, lass
At the sign of the thistle
In talk with Donnchadh bàn Mac an T'saoir
At my father's grave
Selected poems of Hugh Macdiarmid
First hymn to Lenin
When the rat-race is over
Edinburgh's smoky scene
Penny wheep
Selected poems
A kist of whistles
A herd of does
Six vituperative verses
Cornish heroic song for Valda Trevlyn
The MacDiarmids
To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The curly snake
Selected poems
To those of my old school who fell in the Second World War
Selected lyrics
The fall of France
Contemporary Scottish studies
The uncanny Scot
The bonnie broukit bairn
The Age of MacDiarmid
David Hume
Speaking for Scotland
Hugh Macdiarmid, selected lyrics
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Collected poems
Direadh
O wha's been here afore me lass?
The kind of poetry I want
Stony limits and other poems
Vouchsafed, a sign
Aesthetics in Scotland
Annals of the five senses
Cornish Heroic Song to Valda Trevlyn
Five pieces of Miller
The uncanny Scot
Francis George Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid, reading in Scots and English, Thursday evening, May 4, 1967 at 8:30pm [at] The 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, New York City [with] introductory comments by M.L. Rosenthal and Norman MacCaig
Suijin azami o miru
Twenty poems by Hugh MacDiarmid with twenty lithographs by William Johnstone
Montrose
Francis George Scott
The MacDiarmids
Poems addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid, and presented to him on his seventy-fifth birthday by John M. Bett [and others]
Two memories
Second hymn to Lenin
Complete poems
Cunninghame Graham
The ministry of water
The burning passion
The Hugh MacDiarmid anthology
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve)
Poet at play, and other poems
Early lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid
Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
A lap of honour
Muhammad Kurd Ali
Muhammad Kurd Ali (1876-1953)

linguist, historian, literary critic, scientist, journal editor, journalist

Kunūz al-ajdād
al- Muʻāṣirūn
Umarā' al-bayān
Muʻāṣirūn
أمراء البيان
Kitāb al-Mudhakkirāt lil-ustādh al-ʻallāmah Muḥammad Kurd ʻAlī, 1876-1953
Al- Islam wa-al-hadarah al-'Arabiyah
Islām aur 'Arabī tamaddun
Khiṭaṭ al-Shām
Gharāʼib al-gharb
Memoirs of Muhammad Kurd ʻAlī ; a selection
al- Islām wa-al-ḥaḍarah al-ʻArabiyah
Al- Qadim wa-al-hadith
Khitaī al-Shām
al- Qadīm wa-al-ḥadith
Rasāʾil al-bulaghāʾ
Aqwālunā wa-afʻālunā
Dimashq, madīnat al-siḥr wa-al-shiʻr
Kitāb gharā'ib al-Gharb
Ghūṭat Dimashq
Rasāʼil al-Ustādh al-Raʼīs Muḥammad Kurd ʻAlī ilá al-Ab Anastās Mārī al-Karmalī
al-Mudhakkirāt
الإسلام والحضارة العربية
Umarāʼ al-bayān
Ghūṭat Dimashq
Rasāʼil al-bulaghāʼ
غوطة دمشق
Kunūz al-ajdād
Kitāb khiṭaṭ al-Shām
Rasāʾil al-Ustādh al-Raʾīs Muḥammad Kurd ʻAlī ilá al-Ab Anastās Mārī al-Karmalī
Islām awr ʻArabī tamaddun; yaʻnī, Shām-ke mashʹhūr fāẓil Muḥammad Kurd ʻAlī-kī kitāb al-Islām wa-al-ḥaz̤āratuʹl-ʻArabīya-kā tarjuma ...
Ḥāl bilād al-Shām fī awāʼil al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar al-Hijrī, al-ʻishrīn al-Mīlādī
al-Islām wa-al-ḥaḍārah al-ʻArabīyah
al-Qadīm wa-al-ḥadīth
Rasāʾil al-bulaghāʾ