RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
by FITZGERALD, EDWARD(Ill Anthony Rado)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Leicester : Edgar Backus , nd . Edition not Stated . VG . 12MO . Bound in Green leatherette with bright gilt decorations and illustrated with eight full colour illustrations by Anthony Rado. Some wear to the spine but overall a most attractive little book with elaborate decorations and illustrations.
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
- Neil Williams, Bookseller
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5013
- Title
- RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
- Author
- FITZGERALD, EDWARD(Ill Anthony Rado)
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Edition
- Edition not Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edgar Backus
- Place of Publication
- Leicester
- Date Published
- nd
- Pages
- 29 pp.
- Keywords
- Children's and Illustrated
- Size
- 12MO
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Neil Williams, Bookseller
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Victoria, British Columbia
About Neil Williams, Bookseller
We have been buying and selling on the Internet since 1992, full- time since 1998. We started as collectors of children's and illustrated books and this is still our largest specialty. We pride ourselves on the quality of our stock and our commitment to the contentment of our customers.
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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- VG
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