The Epic of the Fear of Death | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Literature@beehaw.org · 29 days ago

Simon Armitage’s new verse translation of the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ is unhurried and resplendent, archaizing without being antiquated.

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