FAIRFAX, EDWARD (c. English poet, trans lator of Tasso, was born at Leeds. the second son of Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton. He is said to have been only about 20 years of age when he published his translation of the Gerusalemme Liberata, which appeared in 1600,—God f rey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Jerusalem, done into English heroicall Verse by Edw. Faire f ax, Gent., and was dedicated to the queen. In the same year extracts from it were printed in England's Parnassus. It is said that it was King James's favourite English poem, and that Charles I. read it in prison. Fairfax employed the same num ber of lines and stanzas as his original, but within the limits of each stanza he allowed himself the greatest liberty. He presented, says Mr. Courthope, "an idea of the chivalrous past of Europe, as seen through the medium of Catholic orthodoxy and classical humanism." The sweetness and melody of many passages are scarcely excelled even by Spenser. He wrote also 12 eclogues, the fourth of which was published in Mrs. Cooper's Muses' Li brary (1737). Another of the eclogues and a Discourse'on Witch craft, as it was acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax of Fuystone in the county of York in 1621, edited from the original copy by Lord Houghton, appeared in the Miscellanies of the Phil obiblon Society (1858-59). Fairfax died at Fewston on Jan. 27, 1635.