Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata)

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College. He is the editor and translator of Lucretius: On the Nature of Things. Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College. He is the editor and translator of Lucretius: On the Nature of Things. Klappentext Late in the eleventh century the First Crusade culminated in the conquest of Jerusalem by Christian armies. Five centuries later, when Torquato Tasso began to search for a subject worthy of an epic, Jerusalem was governed by a sultan, Europe was in the crisis of religious division, and the Crusades were a nostalgic memory. Tasso turned to the First Crusade both as a subject that would test his poetic ambition and as a reflection on the quandaries of his own time. He sought to create a masterpiece that would deserve comparison with the great epics of the past.Anthony Esolen's new translation captures the delight of Tasso's descriptions, the different voices of its cast of characters, the shadings between glory and tragedy -- and it does all this in an English as powerful and clear as Tasso's Italian. Tasso's masterpiece finally emerges as an English masterpiece. Zusammenfassung Tasso's masterpiece finally emerges as an English masterpiece.

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• Authors: Torquato Tasso, Tasso Torquato
• Assisted by: Anthony M Esolen (Editor), Anthony M. Esolen (Editor), Anthony M. (Providence College) Esolen (Editor), Esolen Anthony M. (Editor), Anthony M Esolen (Translation), Anthony M. Esolen (Translation), Anthony M. (Providence College) Esolen (Translation), Esolen Anthony M. (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780801863233
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6323-3
• No. of pages: 504
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Europa, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, POETRY / General, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, POETRY / Ancient & Classical, POETRY / European / General, Poetry by individual poets, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: literary and general