Gilgamesh
by David Ferry
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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 readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil.
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Gilgamesh: a new rendering in English verse
1993, Noonday Press
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- 1st Noonday Press ed.
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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
June 1, 1993, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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Gilgamesh: a new rendering in English verse
1992, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English
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"of him who knew the most of all men know; who made the journey; heartbroken; reconciled; who knew the way things were before the Flood, the secret things, the mystery; who went to the end of the earth, and over; who returned, and wrote the story on a tablet of stone. He built Uruk."
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First Sentence
"of him who knew the most of all men know; who made the journey; heartbroken; reconciled; who knew the way things were before the Flood, the secret things, the mystery; who went to the end of the earth, and over; who returned, and wrote the story on a tablet of stone. He built Uruk."
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