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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Critical Edition  
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
ISBN: 0813916895
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Persian




Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Critical Edition

ANNOTATION

Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when FitzGerald published a free adapation of this Persian poetry. As a result, The Rubaiyat became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

An illustrated gift edition of the quatrains of Omar the tentmaker, which have more admirers today than ever before. Edward Fitzgerald's rendition stands as a monument to the translator's art.

Full-color photographs throughout

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

Fitzgerald compulsively revised his translation of the "Rubiyt," resulting in four published editions, all of which are presented here with their original prefaces and notes, along with all extant versions of FitzGerald's translation. Decker supplies biographical and textual introductions that make use of FitzGerald's correspondence to seek motives for his revisions, the aim being to to unearth a full record of the poem's textual evolution, to provide an interpretive context, and to illuminate the complex process of revision. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

     



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