Book Review: The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso
“Godfrey, behold the day of battle is at hand…Wherefore delay to free captive Jerusalem?”
– The Liberation of Jerusalem I. 16.
Tag: epic
Book Review: The Odyssey by Homer
“So it is that nothing is more sweet in the end than country and parents ever, even when one lives in a fertile place, when it is in alien country, far from his parents.”
– Odyssey IX. 33-36
Book Review: Beowulf
“Choose, dear Beowulf, the better part,
eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride.”
– Beowulf. 1759-1760.
Book Review: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
“O highest Wisdom, how much art you show
in Heaven, on earth, and in the evil world!
How justly does your power apportion all!”
– Inferno XIX. 10-12.
Book Review: The Lusíads by Luís Vaz de Camões
“There will be no lack of Christian daring / In this little house of Portugal.”
– The Lusíads VII. 14.
Book Review: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
Book Review: The Song of Roland
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
Book Review: The Iliad by Homer
“The Greek epics express, with an incomparable depth and fulness, the eternal knowledge of truth and destiny which is the creation of the heroic age—the age that cannot be destroyed by any bourgeois ‘progress’.”
– Werner Jaeger
Book Review: The Aeneid by Virgil
“Be happy, friends; your fortune is achieved,
While one fate beckons us and then another.”
– Aeneid III. 655-656.