The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Softcover (Slight wear. Yellowing pages)
Author: Omar Khayyam
Translator: Edward FitzGerald
ISBN: 9781853261879
Publisher: Wordsworth Classic
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 112
Weight: 95g
HERE IS EDWARD FITZGERALD'S original translation of the Rubaiyat, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyam. FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859), with its oriental imagery and sensual warmth, made an exotic appeal to the Victorian imagination. Its scepticism fitted a time of increasing religious doubt; its romantic melancholy resonated with the writings of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy; and its epicureanism heralded the Aesthetic Movement. It has inspired composers, rock groups, artists and film-makers. As rendered by FitzGerald, the Rubaiyat remains a seductively subversive poem.