FITZGERALD, Edward [Translator].
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám.
London: Robt. Riviere & Son, LTD , 1928.
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Special Edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Special edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth with paper titles to the spine, printed on Studio hand-made paper, reprinted from Fitzgerald's translation published in 1859. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Eleventh-century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam composed more than one thousand quatrains, or rubaiyat, on love and mortality, expressing an enigmatic theology that has been interpreted and disputed over the course of centuries. Scholar Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), first translator and author of five separate English versions of the Rubaiyat, did not produce strict translations as much as loose "transmogrifications" of the poetry, often taking great liberties with the original Persian text. Nevertheless, he remains the most famous of Omar Khayyam's translators, and is credited with bringing the Rubaiyat to broad public notice in the English-speaking world.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám.
$125.00
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