Torquato Tasso

Standard Name: Tasso, Torquato

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Textual Production Henrietta Battier
HB 's volume of verse gives the ages at which she composed several of her earliest poems. During the 1760s she wrote, at eleven, a rhapsodic meditation on the theme of Good Friday. At twelve...
Reception Aphra Behn
Alexander Pope used a poem by AB , The Golden Age, in his Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry, as an example of the despised Florid Style. To sharpen his...
Textual Production Lady Eleanor Butler
Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby .
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages.
vii
They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell
Education Jane Welsh Carlyle
But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...
Textual Production Isabella Neil Harwood
INH published three plays in one volume, entitled Arabella Stuart ; The Heir of Linne; Tasso.
Pall Mall Gazette. J. K. Sharpe.
4558 (1 October 1879)
Textual Features Isabella Neil Harwood
The last play in this volume, Tasso, tells the story of the Italian Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso , who here leaves his home and his love, Laura, to pursue ambition, fame, and fortune. At...
Textual Production Mary Latter
This play by ML is distantly related to Tasso 's Gerusalemme liberata (as is The Siege of Jerusalem by Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , which was privately printed in 1774). An early draft...
Textual Features Anne Marsh
Adelaide Lindsay, which quotes Tasso on its title-page, gives no hint as to what AM 's non-authorial relationship with it may have been. It follows its heroine from her first arrival home to Jamaica...
Textual Production Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
She began writing this work, which she subtitled A Dramatic Poem, in Five Acts, five years earlier; even after its printing it remained unproduced.
Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes. Constable.
29-30
The same title had been used for a tragedy...
Literary responses Ann Radcliffe
Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
221-2
Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...
Occupation Frances Reynolds
Samuel Johnson was eager to sit for her, and did so on three occasions: in March 1775, in June 1780, and in summer 1783. He may have been sitting for her on the day before...
Intertextuality and Influence Christina Rossetti
Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Edmund Curll , still cashing in, published Select Translations from Tasso 's Jerusalem, by the late ESR .
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang.
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Textual Features Elizabeth Singer Rowe
The Vision (first of her poems both in the Tonson volume and in the posthumous Miscellaneous Works) and On the Creation both express the resolve to choose religious themes for the future. Two extended...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
EPS has an eye for picturesque scenes, which she describes as set pieces as well as sketching as an artist. Examples are the group formed by a servant and a native each knee-deep in a...

Timeline

Late 1589: Italian poet Battista Guarini published his...

Writing climate item

Late 1589

Italian poet Battista Guarini published his pastoral tragi-comedyIl Pastor Fido (The Faithful Shepherd), designed to rival his friend Torquato Tasso 's Aminta, 1581.

22 November 1599: Edward Fairfax licensed with the Stationers'...

Writing climate item

22 November 1599

Edward Fairfax licensed with the Stationers' Company his Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Jerusalem, his translation of Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso (1581), which was published in 1600.

October 1794: The The Free-Masons's Magazine carried a...

National or international item

October 1794

The The Free-Masons's Magazine carried a fiercely anti-slavery poem by someone calling herself Clorinda: An Elegy to the Island of Jamaica.

Texts

Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, and Torquato Tasso. Select Translations from Tasso’s Jerusalem. E. Curll, 1738.