RUBAIYAT of OMAR KHAYYAM: (Half-Hour Classics)
by Fitzgerald, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VeryGood with owner inscription (1952) else unmarked, in Fair-Good jacket clipped front & back, edgewear.
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crowell, (no date). 6th printing.. Hardcover in red/blue decorative boards, in blue illus jacket.. VeryGood with owner inscription (1952) else unmarked, in Fair-Good jacket clipped front & back, edgewear.. Includes Introduction, First Edition, Fourth Edition. Solid clean tight copy with jacket.
5-1/4 x 7-1/2, 86 pp, color frontispiece, red/blue decorative endpapers.
5-1/4 x 7-1/2, 86 pp, color frontispiece, red/blue decorative endpapers.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- edburynbooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15709
- Title
- RUBAIYAT of OMAR KHAYYAM
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in red/blue decorative boards, in blue illus jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - VeryGood with owner inscription (1952) else unmarked, in Fair-Good jacket clipped front & back, edgewear.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 6th printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Crowell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (no date)
- Keywords
- Fiction, Poetry, Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Poetry, Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
edburynbooks
Biblio member since 2007
Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
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