Gilgamesh
Subtitle: a new rendering in English verse
By: David Ferry.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Gilgamesh -- Adaptations; Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian -- Adaptations; Epic poetry, American; Erech (Extinct city) -- Kings and rulers -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Other titles: Gilgamesh.
Description: 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 readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Adaptation of English translations of: Gilgamesh.