The Meolopoeic Fidelity Of The First Stanza Of Wickert’s Translation Of Tasso’s “Liberation Of Jerusalem”
I am reading my way through Max Wickert‘s powerful modern verse translation of Tasso’s La Gerusalemme Liberata, a translation that is faithful to the original and at the same time immensely readable. The dynamic opening stanza of the The Liberation of Jerusalem, its fidelity to the original combined with its [Read more…]