Herbert Mason

Gilgamesh

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National Book Award Finalist: The most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations, within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A National Book Award finalist, Herbert Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original. ';Mr. Mason's version is the one I would recommend to the first-time reader.' Victor Howes, The Christian Science Monitor ';Like the Tolkien cycle, this poem will be read with profit and joy for generations to come.' William Alfred, Harvard University
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88 printed pages
Publication year
2003
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Quotes

  • Erica Highlanderhas quoted2 years ago
    She said: Your equal is the star

    Which fell, as if a sign from Heaven

    Had been sent which is too heavy

    But which you will try to lift

    And drive away, and fail.
  • Erica Highlanderhas quoted2 years ago
    Gilgamesh woke anxiously from a dream

    And said to Ninsun: I saw a star

    Fall from the sky, and the people

    Of Uruk stood around and admired it,

    And I was jealous and tried to carry it away

    But I was too weak and I failed.

    What does it mean? I have not dreamed

    Like this before.
  • Erica Highlanderhas quoted2 years ago
    I feel such tiredness. I cannot explain.

    Ninsun said: The ax is a man

    Who is your friend and equal

    He will come. A graceful man

    Who will lift you out of tiredness.
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