Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: And Persian Miniatures
de Fitzgerald, Edward (translator) & Omar Khayyam
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0517282844
- ISBN 13
- 9780517282847
- Librería
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Silverdale, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Crescent Books. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 0517282844 . Large format hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "A" in the letter line on copyright page, book is in excellent condition, no remarkable flaws, the jacket is clean and attractive with no significant flaws and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "Although most of the miniatures illustrating the present volume have been selected to portray some aspect of the poet's visions, they do merit consideration in their own right...approximately half of those featured in the present volume - miniatures from the Reza Abbasi Museum - are being published now only for the first time" .
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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- Mainly Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 054296
- Título
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: And Persian Miniatures
- Autor
- Fitzgerald, Edward (translator) & Omar Khayyam
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st English Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517282844
- ISBN 13
- 9780517282847
- Editorial
- Crescent Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Palabras clave
- 0517282844, LITERATURE
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Poetry;
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