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Tasso's art and afterlives
2017
Overview
This interdisciplinary study examines the literary, artistic and
biographical afterlives in England of the great sixteenth-century
Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death to the end of
the nineteenth century. Focusing on the lasting impact of his once
famous poem Gerusalemme liberata across a spectrum of
arts, it aims to stimulate a revival of interest in a neglected
poetic masterpiece and its author, some fifty years after the last
account of the poet in English. The influence of Tasso's poem is
traced and analysed in the literary works of Spenser, Milton,
Shakespeare and Daniel, and consideration is also given to its
impact on the visual and musical arts in England, in works by Van
Dyck, Poussin and Handel. A second strand focuses on English
responses to Tasso's troubled life in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, exemplified in Byron's memorable impersonation of the
poet's voice in The Lament of Tasso .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Subject
ISBN
0719090881, 9780719090882
