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This study examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great 16th-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death to the end of the 19th 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 50 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 18th and 19th centuries, exemplified in Byron's memorable impersonation of the poet's voice in 'The Lament of Tasso.'

Tasso, Torquato, --- Le Tasse --- Campra, André, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tasse, Le, --- Tasse, Le (1544-1595). --- Critique et interpretation. --- Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso, Torquato) --- Tasso napoletano (Tasso, Torquato) --- Gierosalemme libberata (Tasso, Torquato) --- Gierusalemme (Tasso, Torquato) --- Goffredo, overo, Gierusalemme liberata (Tasso, Torquato) --- Codice Urbinate-Latino 413 --- Literature and literary studies --- Literature: history and criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Europe. --- European --- General. --- Abraham Fraunce. --- Edmund Spenser. --- Elizabethan England. --- Gerusalemme liberata. --- John Dennis. --- Rinaldo and Armida: A Tragedy. --- Samuel Daniel. --- Tancredi and Erminia. --- Tasso's art. --- Tasso's poems. --- Torquato Tasso. --- amorous interlude. --- artistic afterlives. --- dramatic opera. --- enchanted garden. --- visual arts.