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3/5 It's been a while since I read it, but I thought it better than that. I do enjoy pastoral poetry a lot, though. Aminta is the Comus to Tasso's Paradise Lost, but Jerusalem Delivered is even better than Paradise Lost. Milton admired Tasso as well and in his own epic often borrowed from him. I should also say, when Milton wasn't reading the original, he used Fairfax's translation, which is one of the few translations in our language that is itself literature. There aren't decent reprints that I know of, but it's worth looking over alongside one of the modern translations.
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It's been a while since I read it, but I thought it better than that. I do enjoy pastoral poetry a lot, though. Aminta is the Comus to Tasso's Paradise Lost, but Jerusalem Delivered is even better than Paradise Lost. Milton admired Tasso as well and in his own epic often borrowed from him. I should also say, when Milton wasn't reading the original, he used Fairfax's translation, which is one of the few translations in our language that is itself literature. There aren't decent reprints that I know of, but it's worth looking over alongside one of the modern translations.
