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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

David Ferry

Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

Hardcover (Farrar, Straus and Giroux June 17, 1992) , 1st edition
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.
ISBN
0374162271 / 9780374162276
Pages
96
Weight
9.6 oz.
Dimensions
5.8 x 0.6 in.