The Liberation of Jerusalem
'The bitter tragedy of human life-horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance,and the great game of Destiny and Chance. 'In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and thewarrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tanc…
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Weitere Autoren: Wickert, Max (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160901-5
- EAN: 9780191609015
- Produktnummer: 13917157
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'263 KB
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Max Wickert is a poet whose poems and verse translations have been published in American journals including American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Sewanee Review etc. Pulitzer Prize winning poet Carl Dennis, says of his translation: 'Max Wickert's fine translation captures both the dignity and the energy of Tasso's epic, its artfulness and its passion. It's an impressive achievement.'Mark Davie has published studies on various aspects of Italian literature, mainly in the period from Dante to the Renaissance. He has contributed to The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature and he is the Italian Editor of Modern Language Review.
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