1834: "a deaf and rheumatic man, who looks prematurely old". Eventually there was a mental decline: according to Rogers, Rose was an imbecile by the time of his death in Brighton, on 29 April 1843. Associations In 1803 Rose met Walter Scott in London. They became friends, and it was through Rose that Scott came to know John Bacon Sawrey Morritt. Scott addressed to Rose the introductory poem of Marmion in 1808, from his house Ashestiel, Ettrick Forest. Rose was associated with wits of the Anti-Jacobin circle, such as George Canning and John Hookham Frere, Tories who also gravitated to the group around the Quarterly Review. They were interested in the burlesque aspects of Italian poetry. Another possible influence on Rose was John Herman Merivale, translator of Luigi Pulci. Frere met Lord Byron in Seville in 1809; and Rose knew Byron from encounters in 1817–8 in Venice. Beppo: A Venetian Story was Byron's 1818 poem which in terms of style and tone, and the use of ottava rima, owed something to the "Whistlecraft" Arthurian burlesque published by Frere, for Rose, as Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work (1817), and later (after expansion) known as The Monks and the Giants (1818). The digressive and satiric style was then worked out more completely in Don Juan. Byron understood that Rose was the author. Given the Tory provenance, from political opponents, of the "Whistlecraft" verse, Byron was as much provoked to competition as influenced. Frere initially thought Beppo was by Rose. Rose, in his verse epistle to Frere, published 1834, called Frere "father of his [Byron's] final song", with a footnote: In which I comprehend Beppo and Don Juan, and to warrant my assertion, it is fitting I should mention that Lord Byron made this avowal to me at Venice, and said he should have inscribed Beppo to him that had served him as a model, if he had been sure it would not have been disagreeble, supposing (as I conclude) that some passages in it might have offended him. Despite his Tory background, and personal connection to followers of William Pitt the younger, Rose came to join the Holland House set of Whigs. Works Rose's major work was the translation of the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, into English verse with notes, that he made in the years 1823 to 1831. The publisher John Murray II, seeing the success of Beppo