" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all the Faerie Queene, all of Milton's poetry, the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme Liberata in the originals, and in translation the Iliad, Odyssey, Aenied, Pharsalia, and ... [nearly all] of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Ovid, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book
Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 9 May 1873: "Some time since I began to read Tasso with Miss Bartlett and though he is very delicious I have let it become rather desultory."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James and Miss Bartlett Print: Book
'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
'My friend had a good deal to do in order to be prepared for his approaching voyage. While he was attending to these matters, I usually remained at home and read in such books as I found at hand. Among these was a copy of Mr. Hoole's translation of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered", which poem I now read for the first time, and with much interest.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book
'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's version...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
'Pastor Fido
Orlando Furioso
Livy's History
Seneca's Works
Tasso's Girusalame Liberata
Tassos Aminta
2 vols of Plutarch in Italian
Some of the plays of Euripedes
Seneca's Tragedies
Reveries of Rousseau
Hesiod
Novum Organum
Alfieri's Tragedies
Theocritus
Ossian
Herodotus
Thucydides
Homer
Locke on the Human Understanding
Conspiration de Rienzi
History of arianism
Ochley's History of the Saracens
Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
'Pastor Fido
Orlando Furioso
Livy's History
Seneca's Works
Tasso's Girusalame Liberata
Tassos Aminta
2 vols of Plutarch in Italian
Some of the plays of Euripedes
Seneca's Tragedies
Reveries of Rousseau
Hesiod
Novum Organum
Alfieri's Tragedies
Theocritus
Ossian
Herodotus
Thucydides
Homer
Locke on the Human Understanding
Conspiration de Rienzi
History of arianism
Ochley's History of the Saracens
Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; read the preface and seventy or eighty pages of Tasso; ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book
'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley Print: Book
'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] Gisborne Print: Book
'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st
Canto of Tasso'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Print: Book
'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read a book of Tasso to Shelley.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Greek - Tasso'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination -
English - Thalaba.
Cowper Walker on The Revival of Italian Tragedy
Southey's Tour in Spain
Tommy Jones
Italian - Metastasio's Olympiade
Demofoonte, Giusepe riconosciuto,
Gioas, La Clemenza di
Tito, Catone, Regolo,
Ciro, Zenobia -
Tassos's Aminta -
Seven Canto's of Ariosto,
Il Vero Amore, an Italian novel -
La bella pelegrina, La Zingana
Merope, del Maffei, &c, &c, &c, &c
French - None
If you wish to know how I came to poke my green eyes into so many Italian books, I have this reply at your service. there has been an Italian Master here for above a month - and he brushed up for me the rusty odds an [sic] ends of his dulcet language which I had formerly picked up, & whilst he was here, & since his departure, I have done nothing but peep & pry into the works of his countrymen'
[The format of SHB's list was in two columns, English and french to the left and Italian to the right]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book
'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile of sweetening the edges of a cup for a child, being transferred from Lucretius into an epick poem. The General said he did not imagine Homer's poetry was so ancient as is supposed, because he ascribes to a Greek colony circumstances of refinement not found in Greece itself at a later period, when Thucydides wrote. JOHNSON. "I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer, which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works; I am for the antiquity of Homer, and think that a Grecian colony, by being nearer Persia, might be more refined than the mother country.".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli Print: Book
'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying myself with Tasso's Aminta- '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
