| Description |
lxix, 167 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Note |
Originally published: 2009. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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 Khayyam -- 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." |
| Summary |
In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyam. If not a true translation--his Omar seems to have read Shakespeare and the King James Bible--the poem nevertheless conveyed some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry, and some of the sharpest-edged. By the end of the century, it was one of the best-known poems in the English language, admired by Swinburne and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition focuses on the poem as a work of Victorian literary art, doing justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on "human death and fate." Karlin provides a fascinating critical introduction which documents the poem's treatment of its Persian sources, along with its multiple affiliations with English and Classical literature and to the Bible. A selection of contemporary reviews offers an insight into the poem's early reception, including the first attack on its status as a translation. -- Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Omar Khayyam. Rubāʻīyāt.
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Persian poetry -- 747-1500 -- Translations into English.
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Rubāʻīyāt (Omar Khayyam) (OCoLC)fst01356132
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Persian poetry. (OCoLC)fst01058542
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| Chronological Term |
747-1500
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| Genre/Form |
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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| Added Author |
FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883.
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Karlin, Daniel, 1953-
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| ISBN |
9780199580507 (pbk.) |
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0199580502 (pbk.) |
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