3.5
Gilgamesh
ByPublisher Description
This is a new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western literature. Ferry makes
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, and "brings a fresh interpretation to [its] power" (John Ray,
).
"Captures the elegiac and ironic undertones of Gilgamesh's failed search for immortality. One senses that [Ferry] has restored the poetry of this oldest epic." —
"Like Edward Fitzgerald's
or Ezra Pound's
, Mr. Ferry's
is a miraculous transformation of [the] original into his own, utterly distinctive idiom . . . [Ferry's] technical genius and literary sophistication evoke not only the hero's anguish, but the rage and despair of the untouchable." —Tom Sleigh,
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“This was an ok book, but compares to the books that were written before this one (none) it was amazing😁”
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