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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
by OMAR KHAYYAM; TRANSLATION BY EDWARD FITZGERALD
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971 FULL COLOR PAINTINGS AND ARTWORK VERY NICE BY SARKIS, A FOREMOST PERSIAN ARTIST IN IRAN. TERRIFIC BOOK, BLACK COVER WITH GOLD ART ON FRONT AND PRINT ON SPINE, PURPLE/ PINK SPINE. DUST COVER VERY GOOD CONDITION. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048-1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), (18 May 1048 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian:) was a Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, historian, philosopher, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, the initial capital of the Seljuk Empire. As a scholar, he was contemporary with the rule of the Seljuk dynasty around the time of the First Crusade. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
Synopsis
he Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Omar is neither a translation nor an independent poem; sceptical of divine providence and insistent on the pleasure of the passing moment, its 'Orientalism' offers FitzGerald a powerful and distinctive voice, in whose accents a whole Victorian generation comes to life. Although the poem's vision is bleak, it is conveyed in some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry - and some of the sharpest- edged. The poem sold no copies at all on its first appearance in 1859, yet when it was 'discovered' two years later its first admirers included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'.
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- Antique Books Den
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000428
- Title
- RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
- Author
- OMAR KHAYYAM; TRANSLATION BY EDWARD FITZGERALD
- Illustrator
- SARKIS KATCHADOURIAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- OMAR KHAYYAM, POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; POETRY; Philosophy;
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