{"product_id":"gilgamesh-a-new-rendering-in-english-verse-paperback","title":"Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Ferry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Ferry\u003c\/b\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for his translation of \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e in 1992, has translated \u003ci\u003eThe Odes of Horace, The Eclogues of Virgil, \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eEpistles of Horace. \u003c\/i\u003eFor \u003ci\u003eOf No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations \u003c\/i\u003ehe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.3 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350529884409,"sku":"9780374523831","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/OWd1eVVNaHlZSk1mYm84alVjRGRTZz09.webp?v=1769786709","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/gilgamesh-a-new-rendering-in-english-verse-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}