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ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843) , English poet and translator, second son of George Rose (q.v.), was born in 1775. He was educated at Eton College, and in 1796 was returned to parliament for the borough of Christchurch. In 1800 he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds on his appointment as reading clerk of the House
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Parliament of Bees, a translation of the Animali Parlanti of Casti, and Letters from the North of Italy, addressed to Henry
ROSE 729 Hallam, Esq., appeared in 1819. In the same year the publisher Murray offered him 2000 for a translation of Ariosto (T. Moore, Diary, 14th of April 1819). He had already written an abridged version of Berni's rifacimento of the Orlando Inamorato of Boiardo, and had begun his Orlando Furioso translated into English Verse which appeared in two parts in 1823 and 1831. This, which has become the standard English version, is a close rendering in the ottava rima of the original
Review , July 1836 and April 1837). He ,died on the 3oth of April 1843.End of Article: ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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