Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem

Michael Schmidt

Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 July 2021
Pages
192
ISBN
9780691205168

Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem

Michael Schmidt

Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets

Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of intimate friendship a

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