Conjectures and Researches Concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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In the interval, he received a letter from maueio cataneo, the Cardinal's secretary.
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IT were useless to ask you...)
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IT were useless to ask your pardon for these lines, since before you read them the writer will be past the reach of love or anger.
You once advised me to attempt a poem of some length, in hopes that an occupation suitable to my inclinations might divert my inexplicable weariness of life and Spirit.
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Conjectures and Researches, Vol. 1: Concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso (Classic Reprint)
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The loves and transports which he wept and sung, being true, then, what they were may be deduced, with some degree Of certainty, from a careful examination of his writings; and comparing these with the events Of his life, the one may be made to illustrate the other.
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Conjectures and Researches, Vol. 1: Concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso (Classic Reprint)
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The loves and transports which he wept and sung, being true, then, what they were may be deduced, with some degree of certainty, from a careful examination of his writings and comparing these with the events Of his life, the one may be made to illustrate the other.
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The Life, Literary Labors and Neglected Grave of Richard Henry Wilde (Classic Reprint)
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My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky; But, ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground - to die.
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Richard Henry Wilde was a United States Representative and lawyer from Georgia.
Background
Richard Henry Wilde was born on September 24, 1789 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Richard and Mary (Newitt) Wilde. Soon after arriving at Baltimore with his family in 1797, the poet's father lost his property because of his partner's participation in the Irish rebellion and in 1802 he died. The next year the mother moved to Augusta, Ga. , where her son assisted her in running a store.
Education
From his mother and through his own studies he received most of his education. He studied law privately.
Career
He was admitted to the bar in 1809, and in 1811 became attorney-general of Georgia. Wilde divided his time between law, politics, and literature. He was elected to Congress for five terms, 1815-17, 1827-35, and was appointed to fill vacancies in 1825 and 1827. His opposition to the Jacksonian Whigs, then dominant in Georgia, his defeat for reëlection in 1834, and his own temperamental dissatisfaction with public life led to his retirement. In June 1835 he went abroad. After extensive travel, he settled in Florence and commenced "The Life and Times of Dante" and "The Italian Lyric Poets. " (The unfinished manuscripts are in the Library of Congress. ) To Wilde belongs the chief credit for the discovery in the Bargello of Giotto's portrait of the youthful Dante. After his return to America between November 1840 and February 1841, he published his Conjectures and Researches Concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso, a well-documented but romantic argument. He moved to New Orleans in 1843 to practise law and in 1847 was appointed professor of constitutional law in the newly organized law department of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University), where he served until his death. Wilde's contemporary reputation as a poet rested almost entirely upon "My life is like the summer rose, " composed before 1815 as an interpolated lyric in an unfinished epic. In spite of his determination not to publish the poem, it was printed as early as April 1819, in the Analectic Magazine, and came to be generally attributed to Wilde. Later its authorship was claimed for the eccentric Irish bard Patrick O'Kelly, and Wilde was charged with plagiarism. As a hoax, Anthony Barclay of Savannah translated the poem into Greek and passed it off as a newly discovered fragment of Alc'us. A lively newspaper controversy over the authorship led Wilde to acknowledge it in a letter to the press dated December 31, 1834, and to give an account of its origin. During the poet's lifetime it was highly praised and frequently reprinted; it was set to music by Sidney Lanier and others. Of Wilde's poems it is the only one to remain generally known. His Hesperia, which did not appear until after his death, was intended for anonymous publication as "A Fragment by the Late Fitzhugh de Lancy, Esq. " It consists of four cantos addressed to the Marchesa Manfredina di Cosenza. The poem is a series of descriptions of travels in America and Europe, and in diction, meter, stanza form, and sentiment follows the Byron-Thomas Moore tradition. The notes reveal the author's extensive reading, embody some of the results of his studies in Europe, and include original poems, notably the sonnet "To the Mocking-Bird" and "Star of My Love. " Wilde died in New Orleans of yellow fever, and was buried in a vault in that city. In 1854 his remains were reinterred in an unmarked grave in the garden of his home in Augusta. In 1886 he was again reburied, in the "Poet's Corner" of the City Cemetery of Augusta. This reburial was due to the efforts of the Hayne Circle, a literary society, which in 1896 erected a monument to the memory of Wilde and three other Southern poets.