The Liberation of Jerusalem
(Sprache: Englisch)
Tasso's epic poem concerns the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, and combines the theme of war with romantic and magical tales of love between pagan and Christian. This is the first modern translation that faithfully reflects the sense and...
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Tasso's epic poem concerns the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, and combines the theme of war with romantic and magical tales of love between pagan and Christian. This is the first modern translation that faithfully reflects the sense and verse form of Tasso's hugely infuential masterpiece.
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'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 the
warrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred.
Tasso's masterpiece left its mark on writers from Spenser and Milton to Goethe and Byron, and inspired countless painters and composers. This is the first English translation in modern times that faithfully reflects both the sense and the verse form of the original. Max Wickert's fine rendering is introduced by Mark Davie, who places Tasso's poem in the context of his life and times and points to the qualities that have ensured its lasting impact on Western culture.
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Autoren-Porträt von Torquato Tasso
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.'
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Torquato Tasso
- 2009, 496 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 19 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Mitarbeit: Davie, Mark; Transl.: Wickert, Max
- Übersetzer: Max Wickert
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199535353
- ISBN-13: 9780199535354
Sprache:
Englisch
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