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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse - Paperback

by David Ferry
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Availability:In StockContributor:David FerryPublish date:1993-06-01Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374523831ISBN-10:374523835UPC:9780374523831Book Category:Social Science, PoetryBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, American, Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.30 x 5.52 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.2403Product ID:SCEWHNC9G7

Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374523831ISBN-10:374523835UPC:9780374523831Book Category:Social Science, PoetryBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, American, Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.30 x 5.52 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.2403Product ID:SCEWHNC9G7

David Ferry, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for his translation of Gilgamesh in 1992, has translated The Odes of Horace, The Eclogues of Virgil, and the Epistles of Horace. For Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations he won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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