Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Ferry, David
ISBN 10: 0374523835 ISBN 13: 9780374523831
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
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A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for.
About the Author: David Ferry, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for his translation of Gilgamesh, is a poet and translator who has also won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, given by the Library of Congress. In 2001, he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ferry is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College.
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Title: Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Paperback
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