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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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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 '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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Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Note on the Pronunciation and Transcription of Persian Words
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Edward FitzGerald
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
Table of Corresponding Stanzas
Appendix 1: Contemporary Responses
Appendix 2: Tennyson, 'To E. FitzGerald'
Variants
Explanatory Notes

About the author: 

Edited by Daniel Karlin, Professor of English, University of Sheffield

Product details

ISBN : 9780199580507

Author: 
Edward Fitzgerald; Daniel Karlin
Pages
240 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
130 x 196 mm
Pub date
Jun 2010
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam