The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Gilbert James
by Edward Fitzgerald
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Jacket - None/Hardcover
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1907. Pages - 158. Jacket - None/Hardcover. 1. Used - Good. Spine, binding and cover all fine; contents clean, endpapers foxing and contents tanning a little. Spine and cover quite faded.
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
- Berkshire Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4902
- Title
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Author
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Illustrator
- Used - Good
- Book Condition
- Used - Jacket - None
- Jacket Condition
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Pages - 158
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons Ltd
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- 1
- Keywords
- N
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics & Literature;
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Berkshire Rare Books are a small, family business taking great care and pride in the service we give our customers. We stock books on all subjects and are most interested in India, travel & exploration, as well as military books.
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