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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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"Ferry's 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
"Ferry's skill brings a fresh interpretation to the power of Gilgamesh."
John Ray, The Times Literary Supplement