Gilgamesh : a new rendering in English verse / David Ferry.

By:

Ferry, David, 1924-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Akkadian Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, �1992.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 99 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

0374162271
9780374162276
9780374523831
0374523835

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PS3556.E77 G55 1992

Contents:

Introduction / by William L. Moran -- Gilgamesh -- Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Nether World.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Main Collection Books	John Brown University Library	Main	PJ3771 .G5 F4	Available		39524100455876

Adaptation of English translations of: Gilgamesh.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / by William L. Moran -- Gilgamesh -- Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Nether World.

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.