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1913 Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam Limited Edition Persia Mystical Poetry Riccardi Press"Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavor and dispute"
– Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat
The 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám' is said to be one of the ten best known poems in the world, and probably the most popular piece of Middle Eastern literature in the Western World. There are hundreds of editions published from Fitzgerald's various translations alone. This collection of Persian stories dates to the 11th-century and covers a wide variety of topics including philosophy, mysticism, and Sufi and pre-Islamic.
"Like the Odyssey or the Vita Nuova [it] was once the most widely known and quoted work of Victorian poetry in the world," and its place in Western culture at the time was secured by Fitzgerald's "epigrammatic, sophisticated, often mordant verses [that] display Fitzgerald's adroitness in handling this stanza form" (Warner).
This early 20th-century printing of 'Rubaiyat' is a Riccardi Press… Read More