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HOOLE, JOHN (2727-1803)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 675 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HOOLE, JOHN (2727-1803) , English translator and dramatist, son of a watchmaker and machinist, Samuel Hoole, was born at Moorfields, London, in December 1727. He was educated at a private school at Hoddesdon,
Hertfordshire
 , kept by James Bennet, who edited Ascham's English works. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in the accountants' department of the
East
  India
House
 , and before 1767 became one of the auditors of Indian accounts. His leisure
hours
  he devoted to the study of Latin and especially Italian, and began writing translations of the
chief
  works of the Italian poets. He published translations of the Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso in 1763, the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto in 1773-1783, the Dramas of iMetastasio in 1767, and Rinaldo, an early
work
  of Tasso, in 1792. Among his plays are: Cyrus (1768), Timanthes (1770) and Cleonice, Princess of Bithynia (1775), none of which achieved success. The verses of Hoole were praised by Johnson, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, but, though correct, smooth and flowing, they cannot be commended for any other merit. His
translation
  of the Orlando Furioso was superseded by the version (18231831) of W. S. Rose. Hoole was also the friend of the Quaker poet John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783), whose life he wrote; it was prefixed to Scott's
Critical
  Essays (1785). In 1773 he was promoted to be
chief
  auditor of Indian accounts, an office which he resigned in 1785. In 1786 he retired to the parsonage of Abinger, Surrey; and afterwards lived at Tenterden, Kent, dying at Dorking on the 2nd of April 1803.
See Anecdotes of the Life of the
late
  Mr John Hoole, by his surviving brother, Samuel Hook (London, 1803). Some of his plays are re-printed in J. Bell's British Theatre (1797).


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