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Bibliography: Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso, Torquato
- Title
- Jerusalem Delivered
- Author
- Tasso, Torquato
- Date
- 1581
- Genre
- poetry
- Note Source
- Journal 5/16/1897
- Note Relating to Cather
- "Homer could only have written after the heroic age, not before it, and there were, perforce, crusades before Tasso could write Jerusalem Delivered. Our poets are always a generation or two behind us."