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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia
by Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG- (Cloth lightly worn at extremities and a few rub marks but tight and fresh with a very few light isolated foxing spots. Top
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886. Hardcover. VG- (Cloth lightly worn at extremities and a few rub marks but tight and fresh with a very few light isolated foxing spots. Top edge gilted.. Vedder, Elihu. Brown cloth with gilt illustration over boards, illustrated end papers and flyleafs. Unpaginated, 77 leaves, b/w illustrations. The well-known collection of Persian poetry translated here by Edward Fitzgerald and illustrated by American artist Elihu Vedder. Scarce.
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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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 122667
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)
- Illustrator
- Vedder, Elihu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (Cloth lightly worn at extremities and a few rub marks but tight and fresh with a very few light isolated foxing spots. Top
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- American Artists ; Vedder, Elihu ; ;
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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