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Gilgamesh : A New Rendering in English Verse
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Gilgamesh : A New Rendering in English Verse Paperback - 1993

by Ferry, David

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  • Title Gilgamesh : A New Rendering in English Verse
  • Author Ferry, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
  • Date 1993-06-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4028495-6
  • ISBN 9780374523831 / 0374523835
  • Weight 0.24 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.52 x 0.32 in (21.08 x 14.02 x 0.81 cm)
  • Reading level 1090
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian, Epic poetry, American
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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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.