The Aesopic Fable | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Goldsmith, Oliver. "The Life of Aesop." In Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop, pp. i-ix. New York: Cheshire House, 1932.
Reprints an eighteenth-century biographical essay which tries to separate fact from myth regarding the Greek fabulist's life.
Criticism
Allott, Terence. "John Ogilby, the British Fabulist—A Precursor of La Fontaine … And his Model?" Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XXII, No. 44 (1996): 105-14.
Speculated that the 1668 collection of fables by the French writer Jean de La Fontaine may have been based on the Aesopic fables of Scots publisher and printer Ogilby.
Bentley, Richard. "Dissertation upon the Fables of Aesop." In Dissertations upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and the Fables of Aesop, edited, with an introduction and notes, by Wilhelm Wagner, pp. 569-81. London: George Bell & Sons, 1883.
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