Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Title:
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Author:
FitzGerald, Edward.
ISBN:
9780191562303
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (367 pages)
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Publication History -- Note on the Text -- Note on the Pronunciation and Transcription of Persian Words -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Edward Fitzgerald -- RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM -- Tables of Corresponding Stanzas -- Variants -- Appendix I Critical Responses to the RubÁiyÁt in Fitzgerald's Lifetime: Four Reviews and a Polemical Article -- Appendix II Alfred Tennyson, 'To E. Fitzgerald' -- Explanatory Notes -- Footnotes -- Introfn01 -- Introfn02 -- Introfn03 -- Introfn04 -- Introfn05 -- Introfn06 -- Introfn07 -- Introfn08 -- Introfn09 -- Introfn10 -- Introfn11 -- Introfn12 -- Introfn13 -- Introfn14 -- Introfn15 -- Introfn16 -- Introfn17 -- Introfn18 -- Introfn19 -- Introfn20 -- Introfn21 -- Introfn22 -- Introfn23 -- Introfn24 -- Introfn25 -- Introfn26 -- Introfn27 -- Introfn28 -- Introfn29 -- Introfn30 -- Introfn31 -- Introfn32 -- Introfn33 -- Introfn34 -- Introfn35 -- Introfn36 -- Introfn37 -- Introfn38 -- Introfn39 -- Introfn40 -- Introfn41 -- Introfn42 -- Introfn43 -- Introfn44 -- Introfn45 -- Introfn46 -- Introfn47 -- Introfn48 -- Introfn49 -- Introfn50 -- Introfn51 -- Introfn52 -- Introfn53 -- Introfn54 -- Introfn55 -- Introfn56 -- Introfn57 -- Introfn58 -- Introfn59 -- Introfn60 -- Introfn61 -- Introfn62 -- Introfn63 -- Introfn64 -- Introfn65 -- Introfn66 -- Introfn67 -- Introfn68 -- Introfn69 -- Introfn70 -- Introfn71 -- Introfn72 -- Introfn73 -- Introfn74 -- Introfn75 -- Introfn76 -- Introfn77 -- Phisfn01 -- Phisfn02 -- Phisfn03 -- Phisfn04 -- Phisfn05 -- Phisfn06 -- Phisfn07 -- Phisfn08 -- Phisfn09 -- Phisfn10 -- Phisfn11 -- Phisfn12 -- Phisfn13 -- Phisfn14 -- Phisfn15 -- Phisfn16 -- Phisfn17 -- Phisfn18 -- Phisfn19 -- Phisfn20 -- Phisfn21 -- Prefaceen01 -- Prefaceen02 -- Ifn01 -- Ifn02 -- Ifn03 -- Ifn04.
Appendixen01.
Abstract:
Edward FitzGerald's version of the Rub--aacute--;iy--aacute--;t of the medieval Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayy--aacute--;m contains some of the most frequently quoted - and beautiful - lines in English poetry. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'. - ;'The 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 'rub--aacute--;iy--aacute--;t' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayy--aacute--;m, 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 appearance in 1859, yet when it was 'discovered' two years later its first readers and admirers. included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ruskin. By the end of the century it was one of the best-known poems in the English language. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'. - ;Handsome, richly illuminating - and keenly priced. - Boyd Tonkin, The Independent.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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