The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Edward Fitzgerald
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE)/No Jacket
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Leicester: Edgar Backus Stained boards , contents Very Good. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details.. Not Inscribed or Signed. Blue Cloth. GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE)/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated By Anthony Rado . 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾". HARDBACK.
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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- Title
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Author
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Illustrator
- Illustrated By Anthony Rado
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Edgar Backus
- Place of Publication
- Leicester
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- Religious; Classic;
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾"
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