SOURCE: Golding, Louis Thorn. “His Most Famous Works.” In An Elizabethan Puritan, pp. 47-57. New York: Richard R. Smith, 1937.

In the following essay, Louis Thorn Golding surveys the major works of Golding's career, giving special attention to the Metamorphosis and Golding's treatment of the pagan nature and “immorality” of the work.

However actively Golding may have been engaged in the affairs of his nephew and niece, he found leisure for classical studies and for translation, of which the latter was from this time onward to be the chief occupation of his life. Notwithstanding he was busy with the interests of the young Veres and the attack upon their legitimacy, in 1563 he published his translation from the Latin of Leonard Aretine's (D Bruni) History of the Wars between the Imperialls and the Gothes for the possession of Italy. This was the first of five classic translations that were to...