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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Khorasan Edition
by Fitzgerald, Edward
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- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1969. Gilt titles on black panel on red cloth boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some light foxing to endpapers only, else very clean, tightly bound and unmarked. Dustjacket has foxing and wear to edges with a small loss to spine head. 224 pages. 12 illustrations. Introduction by Laurence Housman. Biography of Edward Fitzgerald by G.F. Maine. There are many editions of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Some are prose translations which faithfully mirror the thought and imagery of the original, others are in verse of varying degrees of excellence, but none has won such universal favour as that best loved of all renderings by Edwrd Fitzgerald, 1809-1883. This book contains the First, Second, and Fifth Editions in full, together with the textual variations in the Third and Fourth Editions, thus providing the reader with a complete rendition of Fitzgerald's work over more than twenty-five years. There are, in addition the notes to the Second Edition which contains the largest number of quatrains (110) and a glossary. The illustrations were specially drawn for this edition by Robert Stewart Sherriffs. L. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Sherriffs, Robert Stewart. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 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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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011496
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Khorasan Edition
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Illustrator
- Sherriffs, Robert Stewart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- OMAR KHAYYAM, PERSIAN POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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