I Don’t Know Whats
Colin Burrow: Torquato Tasso, 22 February 2001
Jerusalem Delivered
by Torquato Tasso, translated by Anthony Esolen.
Johns Hopkins, 490 pp., £50.50, November 2000,0 8018 6322 8 Show More
by Torquato Tasso, translated by Anthony Esolen.
Johns Hopkins, 490 pp., £50.50, November 2000,
“... so che is his way out of most of the difficulties which he nobly insisted on making for himself. Anthony Esolen’s new translation is good at I don’t know whats. And the illusions of the forest, the best of Tasso, elicit his best lines. When Alcasto enters the enchanted wood, ‘in his path a conflagration leapt/or seemed to leap.’ The ... ”
