RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
by FITZGERALD, Edward; Introduction By Monica Redlich
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London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1934. (UK) Presumed 1st of this edition, edition not stated. The introduction is dated 1934. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as publoshed. Flexible green leather with gold spine titles, xvi, then 17 to 112pp, no illus. Monica Redlich was an English journalist, author, and social commentator whose books included The Pattern of England, Jam Tomorrow, Summer Landscape, and Danish Delight. She died in 1963. (1.0 JM ITF docket 50. 1st. Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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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- Title
- RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
- Author
- FITZGERALD, Edward; Introduction By Monica Redlich
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
- Keywords
- Persian Poetry in Translation
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