Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

Ferry, David; Moran, William L. (intro.)

ISBN 10: 0374162271 / ISBN 13: 9780374162276

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1992

About this Item

First edition of Ferry's English verse adaptation of the ancient Sumerian epic. Copy is in near fine condition. Absolutely minimal wear to the grey papered boards., Interior is clean and unmarked with a solid, tight binding. Dust jacket is very good with just some very faint edge wear.

Seller Inventory # 004451

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374162271
• ISBN 13: 9780374162276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David Ferry, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for his translation of Gilgamesh in 1992, has translated The Odes of Horace, The Eclogues of Virgil, and the Epistles of Horace. For Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations he won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, given by the Academy of American Poets, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, given by the Library of Congress. In 2001 he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2002 he won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. He is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College.