Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
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ISBN: 0374523835 / Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 1993
Provides a new translation of the ancient Babylonian epic poem about a powerful hero who searches for a way to escape death
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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.
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