Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

Ferry, David

ISBN 10: 0374523835 / ISBN 13: 9780374523831

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993

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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.

À propos de l?auteur: David Ferry, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for his translation of Gilgamesh, is a poet and translator who has also 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. Ferry is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Éditeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date d'édition : 1993
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket