Torquato Tasso

Standard Name: Tasso, Torquato

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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.
12
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...
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...

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