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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Critical Edition Hardcover - 1997
by Edward Fitzgerald; Christopher Decker (Editor)
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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: A Critical Edition
- Author Edward Fitzgerald; Christopher Decker (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 258
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
- Date February 1997
- ISBN 9780813916897 / 0813916895
- Weight 1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.4 x 1.25 in (23.72 x 16.26 x 3.18 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96024529
- Dewey Decimal Code 891.551
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Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 258pp. Red cloth in dust jacket. Some spotting to top foredge. Part of the Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Definitive edition, this is the first book to published together all extant states of the poem adn to unearth a full record of its textual evolution.
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