Parnassus Revisited: Modern Critical Essays on the Epic Tradition

Anthony C. Yu (October 6, 1938 - May 12, 2015) translated an unabridged, four-volume, 1,873-page English version of The Journey to the West, the 16th century epic saga of a Chinese monk's pilgrimage to India in search of sacred Buddhist scriptures. Yu was a scholar of literature and religion, eastern and western. He most recently held the title of Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature in the Divinity School; also in the Departments of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and English Language and Literature, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He died May 12, 2015. He was 76.