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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer Poet of Persia
de Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)
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- Estado
- VG
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Ex-Library with all internal & external library markings. Spine faded, gutters creased.
The beautiful, thought provoking, controversial prose of the 11th century Persian Poet.
The beautiful, thought provoking, controversial prose of the 11th century Persian Poet.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 978
- Título
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Autor
- Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 4th printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- International Pocket Library
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1922
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Poetry, Religion, Fiction
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Religion; fiction;
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