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Jerusalem Delivered: An English Prose Version Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Tasso, Torquato (Author), Nash, Ralph (Translator)
ISBN: 0814318304     ISBN-13: 9780814318300
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
OUR PRICE:   $35.59  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 1987
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - General
Dewey: 851.4
LCCN: 86032607
Physical Information: 1.37" H x 6.1" W x 9.04" (1.84 lbs) 512 pages
 
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Ralph Nash, in his approach to Gerusalemme Liberata, concluded that a close, fluent translation in prose of Tasso's epic would offer the most successful rendering of this important chivalric romance. In addition to conveying the imagery more accurately, a prose translation avoids deforming or modifying the text by forcing it into a poetic format. As a result, Nash has given the general reader and the student a fluent, accurate English version of Tasso's great narrative of the first crusade.
Nash's introduction aids the reader in understanding the place of the poem in the corpus of Renaissance literature. Annotations and a glossary clarify the numerous historical, geographical, and mythological references.