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JOHN HOOLE (2727-1803)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 675 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN HOOLE (2727-1803)  ,
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English translator and dramatist, son of a watchmaker and machinist,
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Samuel Hoole, was born at Moorfields,
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London, in December 1727 . He was educated at a private school at
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Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, kept by James Bennet, who edited Ascham's English
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works . At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in the
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accountants' department of the East India House, and before 1767 became one of the auditors of
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Indian accounts . His leisure hours he devoted to the study of Latin and especially
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Italian, and began writing
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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
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work of Tasso, in 1792 . Among his plays are: Cyrus (1768),
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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
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translation of the Orlando Furioso was superseded by the version (1823—1831) of W . S . Rose . Hoole was also the friend of the Quaker poet John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783), whose
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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
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Dorking on the 2nd of
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April 1803 . See Anecdotes of the Life of the
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late Mr John Hoole, by his surviving
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brother, Samuel Hook (London, 1803) . Some of his plays are re-printed in J . Bell's
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British Theatre (1797) .

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