Torquato Tasso

Standard Name: Tasso, Torquato

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susanna Watts
After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso , the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe 's...
Textual Production Elizabeth Smith
One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...
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...
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...
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.
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.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott.
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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
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 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 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 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.
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She recommends reading poetry and history, not novels: Novel reading tends to enervate the mind. We rise from...
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 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 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...
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...
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...

Timeline

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

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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'...

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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.

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.