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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám /

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám /

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rendered into English verse by Edward FitzGerald ; with illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan.

[First edition].

New York :

St. Martin's Press,

[1983]

©1983

16 unnumbered, 75 pages :

illustrations ;

18 cm

Half title.

Translation of: Rubāʻīyāt.

Includes bibliographical notes and references.

In the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they were rediscovered and translated into beautiful English--more than seven centuries later--by a gentleman and scholar named Edward FitzGerald. It was a meeting of minds, a great collaboration of the past and the present, and FitzGerald's rendition of those passionate verses has become one of the best loved poem cycles in the English language. With their concern for the here and now, as opposed to the hereafter, Omar Khayyam's quatrains are as romantic today as they were hundreds of years ago; they are a tribute to the power of one moment's pleasure over a lifetime of sorrow, of desire over the vicissitudes of time. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, presented here with Edward FitzGerald's original preface, is truly a classic, and it will stand forever as one of our finest monuments to love.

Rubāʻīyāt.

English

Persian poetry, Translations into English.

Quatrains, Persian, Translations into English.

Persian poetry.

Quatrains, Persian.

Omar Khayyam

FitzGerald, Edward,1809-1883

Johnson, Holly

Sullivan, Edmund J., (Edmund Joseph),1869-1933

St. Martin's Press,publisher.

20201207092129.0

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