Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.
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Torquato Tasso
Standard Name: Tasso, Torquato
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Freya Stark | Freya had a German governess until the age of eight, and then an Italian governess who stayed until she was fourteen. |
| 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
,... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | SW
's choice of originals shows the catholicity of her tastes: on the one hand a Renaissance work (of which the standard English version was by John Hoole
, 1763) and on the other Le... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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, 1999. 221-2 |
| 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... |
| 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 Features | Helena Wells | HW
says she has more respect for the upper classes than some of our modern reformists. Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech, 1799. 7 |
| 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 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 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... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Watts | SW
worked hard for three months at translating Tasso
's Jerusalem and Verri
's Roman Nights; she had already done some translation from Tasso in about 1786. Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, too, had translated from Tasso's Jerusalem. Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook. 11 Feb. 1834. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004. 12 |
Timeline
Late 1589: Italian poet Battista Guarini published his...
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Late 1589
Italian poet Battista Guarini
published his pastoral tragi-comedy Il Pastor Fido (The Faithful Shepherd), designed to rival his friend Torquato Tasso
's Aminta, 1581.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
22 November 1599: Edward Fairfax licensed with the Stationers'...
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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.
Burrow, Colin. “I Don’t Know Whats”. London Review of Books, 22 Feb. 2001, pp. 12-13.
12-13
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.
Snell, Susan. Poetry by Women in the Freemasons’ Magazine, vols 1 - 11, 1793 - 1798. 16 Sept. 2016.
Texts
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, and Torquato Tasso. Select Translations from Tasso’s Jerusalem. E. Curll, 1738.