Edward Fairfax, an English poet, born at Denton, Yorkshire, died in the parish of Fay-stone about 1633. The translation of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered," by which alone his name is remembered, was made in his youth, and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, and was long enthusiastically admired. The first edition was dated 1600. Its popularity has revived in the present century, and several editions have appeared in England and the United States. The last American edition was in 1855. He also wrote a few eclogues, a prose work on demonology, and a "History of Edward the Black Prince,'1 the manuscript of which was destroyed by fire at Whitehall.