Fables Ancient and Modern

…last work for Tonson was Fables Ancient and Modern (1700), which were mainly verse adaptations from the works of Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Giovanni Boccaccio, introduced with a critical preface. He died in 1700 and was buried in Westminster Abbey between Chaucer and Abraham Cowley in the Poets’ Corner.

…(from 1684); the same writer’s Fables Ancient and Modern (1700; translations from Homer, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Chaucer); poetry by Alexander Pope (1709); and various works by Joseph Addison. In 1712 he became copublisher of The Spectator, a notable periodical founded by Addison and Sir Richard Steele and largely written by…