Tasso's art and afterlives
Jason Lawrence
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
Torquato Tasso, visual arts, artistic afterlives, enchanted garden, Abraham Fraunce, amorous interlude, dramatic opera, Tancredi and Erminia, Gerusalemme liberata, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Spenser, Elizabethan England, Tasso's poems, Rinaldo and Armida: A Tragedy, Tasso's art, John Dennis