Author: BRAND, C.P.
Title: Torquato Tasso. A Study of the Poet and his Contribution to English Literature.
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. 1st edition. "Tasso is a complex and difficult writer. He was a weak man, who was easily affected by external pressures, and his greatness lay almost entirely in his writings. Dr Brand suggests how we should reconcile his poetic genius with his weakness and shows how much these external pressures - his imprisonment, the Inquisition, his critics - affected him." Ppxii/344, two black & white portrait plates. Purple cloth, dustwrapper has minor creasing to corners but is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.

Keywords: Brand Torquato Tasso Poet English Literature Aminta Epic Poetry Gerusalemme Liberata Lyric Inquisition England 47254 Literature


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