Gilgamesh
a new rendering in English verse
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1992 - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
24,750 words, Guess
Page Count
99 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1749542M
- ISBN-100374162271
- OCLC Control Number26145621
- OCLC Control Numbergilgameshnewrend0000ferr
- Library of Congress Control Number92071534
and 2 more
- Goodreads1604256
- LibraryThing6136949
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3556.E77 G55 1992
Alternate 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.
First Sentence
of him who knew the most of all men know; who made the journey; heartbroken; reconciled; who knew the way things were before the Flood, the secret things, the mystery; who went to the end of the earth, and over; who returned, and wrote the story on a tablet of stone. He built Uruk.
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Genres
- Poetry.
Other Editions
- Gilgamesh: a new rendering in English verse
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