Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : the astronomer-poet of Persia

• 作者： Khayyam, Omar
• 其他作者：
  • FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883,
  • Karlin, Daniel, 1953-
• 其他題名：
  • Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
• 出版： Oxford : Oxford University Press
• 叢書名： Oxford world's classics
• 主題： Persian poetry--747-1500--Translations into English.
• ISBN： 9780199580507 (pbk.): US$9.54 、 0199580502 (pbk.)
• 資料類型: 圖書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references. Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Publication history -- Note on the text -- Note on the pronunciation and transcription of Persian words -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Edward Fitzgerald -- Rub of Omar Khayyam -- Tables of corresponding stanzas -- Variants -- Appendix I : critical responses to the Rub in FitzGerald's lifetime : four reviews and a polemical article -- Appendix II : Alfred Tennyson, "To E. FitzGerald." First published: 2009.
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• 摘要註: In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyam. If not a true translation--his Omar seems to have read Shakespeare and the King James Bible--the poem nevertheless conveyed some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry, and some of the sharpest-edged. By the end of the century, it was one of the best-known poems in the English language, admired by Swinburne and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition focuses on the poem as a work of Victorian literary art, doing justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on "human death and fate." Karlin provides a fascinating critical introduction which documents the poem's treatment of its Persian sources, along with its multiple affiliations with English and Classical literature and to the Bible. A selection of contemporary reviews offers an insight into the poem's early reception, including the first attack on its status as a translation. -- Publisher description.
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