Torquato Tasso

Edmund Curll , still cashing in, published Select Translations from Tasso 's Jerusalem, by the late ESR .

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...

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...

She began writing this work, which she subtitled A Dramatic Poem, in Five Acts, five years earlier; even after its printing it remained unproduced. The same title had been used for a tragedy...

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...

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.

Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby . They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell

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...