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Torquato Tasso , in the admiration which it excites in the closet , rivals Iphigenia , though it wants all those requisites which have rendered Iphigenia a stock play , the test by which the female tragedian is tried , who aspires to the performance of the highest female characters ; for Tasso is a drama without action , that is , without
ex-0 r * ternal action . It is a psychological play , written to exhibit a lofty and refined intellect in conflict , in suffering conflict , with practical talent : the poet at war with the man of the world . In a word , it is a philosophical poem in dialogue . It has been performed in private theatres , but we do not suppose it was ever exhibited on a stage where money was demanded at the door .
Though it has been translated * , yet , from its want of all po- ? pular attractions , we presume it to be unknown to our readers , and shall insert an analysis of it , * It opens with a scene more idyllic than dramatic . Leonora Princess d'Este , and Leonora Countess of Scandrano , are in a garden adorned with statues of Virgil and Ariosto . The ladies , while braiding garlands , discourse of poetry . The passage , in which the Countess gives praise to the house of Este for its
patronage of the great poets , has been often quoted as prophetic of the fame that was soon to accrue to the house of Saxe- Weimar , the patrons of the young authorf " . The dialogue is unreasonably Jong , considered as part of a drama in which there was to be action ; and this remark applies to the whole play . It is interrupted by the arrival of the Duke of Ferrara , and after him by the
' * By Charles Dea Voeux , Esq ., under the author ' s eye . Mr . Des Voeux thought it no unfit exercise of his talents , when educating for diplomacy , at Weimar . He ia now attache ^ to the embassy at Con stantinpple , Mr , £ > es Voeux . ' has added some pleasing versions of some most delightful songs and ballads . —The ' Lay of the Imprisoned Count ^ ' « The Violet ; ^ Mehadoh / &c . &c . ' i f Th « desire to earn that fame must have been generated , if it had not existed before , during those Att ^ c nighty W «« n . Tasgo was playe 4 9 > t the Cqurt theatre , by the court . The young Duke and Duchess performing the character * of Alp ^ onso and the Pt ineefcft Leonora , « nd Oft * ' gt * ai po # t fyrowlf-rtmtosentiiur ^ i # own Taw © :
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metropolis . Two or three local societies « . re already formed , a * ut others are contemplated . The Birmingham and other Political ; Unions have appealed to the legislature and the public , in a spirit worthy of the conservators of the liberties of our own country , and the friends of the liberties of all other countries , There is no longer anv shadow of excuse for ignorance , or
indifference , or silence . The elections are coming . Let Polan 4 be nowhere forgotten when electors and candidates meet upon the hustings . Let every aspirant for legislatorial honours hear the loud echo of that voice of power which has been sent forth by one who has so long consecrated the purest strains of poetry to the noblest purposes of patriotism .
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GOETHE'S WORKS . —No . 4 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 595, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/19/
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