Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam : the astronomer-poet of Persia

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam : the astronomer-poet of Persia

Title remainder

the astronomer-poet of Persia

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Edward FitzGerald ; edited with an introduction and notes by Daniel Karlin

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Summary

In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyam. If not a true translation--his Omar seems to have read Shakespeare and the King James Bible--the poem nevertheless conveyed some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry, and some of the sharpest-edged. By the end of the century, it was one of the best-known poems in the English language, admired by Swinburne and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition focuses on the poem as a work of Victorian literary art, doing justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on "human death and fate." Karlin provides a fascinating critical introduction which documents the poem's treatment of its Persian sources, along with its multiple affiliations with English and Classical literature and to the Bible. A selection of contemporary reviews offers an insight into the poem's early reception, including the first attack on its status as a translation. -- Publisher description

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UKM

Dewey number

891.5511

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no index present

LC call number

PK6513

LC item number

.A1 2010

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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Oxford world's classics

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