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WILLIAM STEWART ROSE (1775-1843)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 729 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:STEWART See also:ROSE (1775-1843)  , See also:English poet and translator, second son of See also:George See also:Rose (q.v.), was See also:born in 1775 . He was educated at See also:Eton See also:College, and in 1796 was returned to See also:parliament for the See also:borough of See also:Christchurch . In 1800 he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds on his See also:appointment as See also:reading clerk of the See also:House of Lords and clerk of the private committees . His first See also:work, A See also:Naval See also:History of the See also:Late See also:War, was undertaken at his See also:father's wish, but he only completed one See also:volume . He produced a See also:free version of the Amadis de See also:Gaul from the See also:French See also:text of Herberay See also:des Essarts in 1803, followed by a See also:translation of the Partenopex de See also:Blois (1807) after Le See also:Grand d'Aussy . With Partenopex he printed his ballad of " The Red See also:King," and in 18 to appeared The Crusade of King See also:Louis and King See also:Edward the See also:Martyr . In 1814 he made a prolonged See also:journey through See also:Italy and eastern See also:Europe, spending the See also:year 1817 at See also:Venice, where he married a Venetian See also:lady . The See also:Court and Parliament of Bees, a translation of the Animali Parlanti of See also:Casti, and Letters from the See also:North of Italy, addressed to See also:Henry ROSE 729 See also:Hallam, Esq., appeared in 1819 . In the same year the publisher See also:Murray offered him £2000 for a translation of See also:Ariosto (T . See also:Moore, See also:Diary, 14th of See also:April 1819) . He had already written an abridged version of See also:Berni's rifacimento of the Orlando Inamorato of See also:Boiardo, and had begun his Orlando Furioso translated into English See also:Verse which appeared in two parts in 1823 and 1831 . This, which has become the See also:standard English version, is a See also:close rendering in the ottava rima of the See also:original .

Rose retired from his See also:

official position in 1824 . He suffered from See also:paralysis in his later years, and at See also:Abbotsford, where he was an honoured See also:guest, rooms were specially fitted up on the ground See also:floor for his use . His last See also:works were An See also:Epistle to the Right See also:Honourable See also:John Hookham See also:Frere (1834), in verse, and a volume of Rhymes (1837) (see Quarterly See also:Review, See also:July 1836 and April 1837) . He ,died on the 3oth of April 1843 .

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