TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmidt,Michael
TI  - Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem 
SN  - 9780691195247
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - A. E. Housman
KW  - Aeneid
KW  - Akkadian Empire
KW  - Ambiguity
KW  - Anachronism
KW  - Aratta
KW  - Ashurbanipal
KW  - Assonance
KW  - Assyriology
KW  - Author
KW  - Basil Bunting
KW  - Blank verse
KW  - Caesura
KW  - Cedar Forest
KW  - Charles Olson
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Clay tablet
KW  - Comic book
KW  - Copying
KW  - Couplet
KW  - Cowardice
KW  - Cuneiform script
KW  - Diction
KW  - Dignity
KW  - Early Period
KW  - Editorial
KW  - Enkidu
KW  - Enlil
KW  - Enmerkar
KW  - Epic of Gilgamesh
KW  - Epic poetry
KW  - Epithet
KW  - Etymology
KW  - Feeling
KW  - Free verse
KW  - Generosity
KW  - Genre
KW  - Gilgamesh the King
KW  - Gilgamesh
KW  - Globish (Gogate)
KW  - Harry
KW  - Homer
KW  - Hormuzd Rassam
KW  - Humbaba
KW  - Imagery
KW  - Inanna
KW  - Incipit
KW  - Indus River
KW  - Irving Finkel
KW  - Ishtar
KW  - Lagash
KW  - Lament
KW  - Lapis lazuli
KW  - Literature
KW  - Long poem
KW  - Louis Zukofsky
KW  - Lugalbanda
KW  - Lycidas
KW  - Mashu
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Metonymy
KW  - Metre (poetry)
KW  - Nancy Sandars
KW  - Narration
KW  - Narrative poetry
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Newspaper
KW  - Ninsun
KW  - Ninurta
KW  - Nippur
KW  - Novel
KW  - Novelist
KW  - Omar Khayyam
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Penguin Classics
KW  - Poetics
KW  - Prose
KW  - Quatrain
KW  - Rhetorical question
KW  - Scorpion man
KW  - Seamus Heaney
KW  - Shamash
KW  - Shamhat
KW  - Shuruppak
KW  - Sippar
KW  - Stephanie Dalley
KW  - Stephen Greenblatt
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Sumer
KW  - Ted Hughes
KW  - Textual criticism
KW  - The love that dare not speak its name
KW  - Transliteration
KW  - Unknown God
KW  - Uruk
KW  - Wild man
KW  - Wisdom literature
KW  - Writer
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; INTRODUCTION --; RIDDLES --; TWO ROADS DIVERGE --; TABLET 1 --; TABLET 2 --; TABLET 3 --; TABLET 4 --; TABLET 5 --; TABLET 6 --; TABLET 7 --; TABLET 8 --; TABLET 9 --; TABLET 10 --; TABLET 11 --; TABLET 12 --; IMAGINING GILGAMESH --; GETTING A GRIP --; WHAT SORT OF POEM? (1) --; WHAT SORT OF POEM? (2) --; GILGAMESH READS US --; HOW YOU TELL IT --; Postface --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh 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 tells the story of a great king, his heroism, and his eventual defeat. It is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of intimate friendship and love. Acclaimed literary historian Michael Schmidt provides a unique meditation on the rediscovery of Gilgamesh and its profound influence on poets today.Schmidt describes how the poem is a work in progress even now, an undertaking that has drawn on the talents and obsessions of an unlikely cast of characters, from archaeologists and museum curators to tomb raiders and jihadis. Incised on clay tablets, its fragments were scattered across a huge expanse of desert when it was recovered in the nineteenth century. The poem had to be reassembled, its languages deciphered. The discovery of a pre-Noah flood story was front-page news on both sides of the Atlantic, and the poem's allure only continues to grow as additional cuneiform tablets come to light. Its translation, interpretation, and integration are ongoing.In this illuminating book, Schmidt discusses the special fascination Gilgamesh holds for contemporary poets, arguing that part of its appeal is its captivating otherness. He reflects on the work of leading poets such as Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, and Yusef Komunyakaa, whose own encounters with the poem are revelatory, and he reads its many translations and editions to bring it vividly to life for readers
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