Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by David Ferry (English) Paperback B

Description: Gilgamesh by David Ferry 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography 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. Review "Ferrys version [of Gilgamesh will] become the standard English text." --Fred Marchant, The Harvard Review "There have been other English accounts of this hero with a thousand descendants, but this is the first one that is as much poetry as scholarship." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "Ferrys skill brings a fresh interpretation to the power of Gilgamesh." --John Ray, The Times Literary Supplement "Ferrys Gilgamesh is uniquely his own, self-contained in holding aloof from fads and hype. No display of adjectival fireworks could do justice to his poems originality or to the integrity of the poets formal invention. In identifying the poem as Mr. Ferrys, I mean no disrespect to Sin-leqe-unninni, the ancient poet-editor that Babylonian tradition credits as having developed to their highest form the epic adventures of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion, Enkidu. But like Edward Fitzgeralds Rubaiyat or Ezra Pounds Cathay, Mr. Ferrys Gilgamesh is a miraculous transformation of his original into his own, utterly distinctive idiom . . . Perhaps the poems most moving element is how the desire for fame is superseded, after the death of Enkidu, by a quest that touches every reader, ancient or modern. . . the wish for physical immortality . . . [Ferrys] technical genius and literary sophistication evoke not only the heros anguish, but the rage and despair of the untouchable." --Tom Sleigh, The New York Times Book Review "The Gilgamesh epic . . . came to light again in the mid-19th century and, thanks to the labors of an arduous, exacting philology, slowly began to assume its place as one of the great poems of the world. Hitherto, however, it has existed only in posse, waiting for a poet who could actualize it. David Ferry has performed this service, and has given us a noble poem as close to the ancient original as we in our ignorance have any right to. May his achievement quickly win the recognition it deserves." --D.S. Carne-Ross, The New Criterion Review Quote There have been other English accounts of this hero with a thousand descendants, but this is the first one that is as much poetry as scholarship. Details ISBN0374523835 Author David Ferry Short Title GILGAMESH Language English Translator David Ferry ISBN-10 0374523835 ISBN-13 9780374523831 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Year 1993 Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Subtitle A New Rendering in English Verse DOI 10.1604/9780374523831 Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 1993-07-01 NZ Release Date 1993-07-01 UK Release Date 1993-07-01 Pages 99 Publication Date 1993-07-01 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:7181870;

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