Godfrey of Bulloigne Or, the Recovery of Jerusalem, Vol. 1 of 2
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Excerpt from Godfrey of Bulloigne Or, the Recovery of Jerusalem, Vol. 1 of 2: Done Into English Heroical Verse, From the Italian of Tasso In the year 1818 the Editor of this series published an edition of Fairfax´s Tasso, in two volumes. This noble translation of one of the few great epic poems which ancient and modem times have produced, had not been reprinted for seventy years. In the present edition the Lives of Fairfax and Tasso have been revised. The Editor subjoins his original advertisement, which bears the date of October, 1817 : - "Dr. Johnson, with somewhat of his characteristic temerity, ventured to predict that the ´Tasso´ of Fairfax would never be reprinted. If the national taste in poetry had not mended since the days of that critic, his prophetic flattery of Hoole would not yet have been disproved. We have fortunately learnt to associate our ideas of French versifiers and Dutch gardeners - have quitted the formal parterres and dull vistas of our geometrical ancestors, for the luxuriant irregularity that nature loves; and have abandoned the monotonous sweetness, sententious precision, and laboured antithesis, of the school of Pope - for the harmonious variety, enchanting simplicity, and eloquent outpourings, of our early poets. The pretensions of Fairfax to take his station with the most exalted of these glorious spirits are fairly discussed in his accompanying Life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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