Oxford World's Classics The Liberation of Jerusalem, (Paperback)

from Neutiquam_Erro

The fame of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata was known far and wide during the Renaissance but sadly, it is far from everyday reading today. This work, describing in twenty masterful cantos the taking of Jerusalem during the first crusade, is one of the masterpieces of epic poetry; in the sa...

from baswood

John Addington Symonds a nineteenth century critic said that Torquato Tasso thought he was writing a religious heroic poem but Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) turned out to be a poem of sentiment and passion. First published in 1581 it was immediately popular and a complete translation...

from ex_ottoyuhr

An epic from the era, and the genre, of _The Fairy Queen_, Malory, and the Arthurian and Carolingian cycles -- the 'courtly romantic' style (the term itself escapes me at the moment) parodied in _Don Quixote_. Everyone should read this poem, and at a very particular period of life, namely, adoles...

from JVioland

This is an epic poem about the First Crusade to liberate the Holy Land. Little read today, it was once consider a must read during the Renaissance. Tasso imitates Homer and Virgil in composing this work and pits love against duty within the main characters. A work that should be resurrected.

from Neutiquam_Erro

The fame of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata was known far and wide during the Renaissance but sadly, it is far from everyday reading today. This work, describing in twenty masterful cantos the taking of Jerusalem during the first crusade, is one of the masterpieces of epic poetry; in the sa...