Full name: Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

Author: David Ferry Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Classic, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780374523831 0374523835

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. Similar books: Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake by William Blake Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters Sonnets by William Shakespeare Collected Poems by W. H. Auden Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson Mountain Interval by Robert Frost Selected Poems by T. S. Eliot Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell Poems of Paul Celan by Paul Celan The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran The Major Works by John Milton Canto General by Pablo Neruda