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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The name of a Persian poet and thinker of the twelfth century, Omar Khayyam is well known to everyone. His quatrains rubaiyat have a special place in a world culture treasury. Everybody who loves to talk, quotes them - from a wedding attendant to a hermit writer with a lot of life wisdom. For a lot of centuries rubaiyat have been attracting the beauty admirers with its valuable literary cut. A perfect quatrain by Khayyam contains a whole life experience of a man: here is an amusing argument with the Fate as well as sad conversations with the Eternity. Khayyam made the rubaiyat genre widely famous, polished this poetic form and left the ancestors an everlasting message that is full of rare soul freedom.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123). The word "Rubaiyat" means quatrains - verses of four lines. These works by Fitzgerald are the best known English translations. This edition contains both the first and fifth editions of the Rubaiyat. This influential translation is seen by many as a zenith of English literature in the nineteenth century. Fitzgerald states that his translation "will interest you from its form, and also in many respects in its detail: very unliteral as it is. Many quatrains are mashed together: and something lost, I doubt, of Omar's simplicity, which is so much a virtue in him." And, "I suppose very few People have ever taken such Pains in Translation as I have: though certainly not to be literal. But at all Cost, a Thing must live: with a transfusion of one's own worse Life if one can't retain the Original's better. Better a live Sparrow than a stuffed Eagle."

Rubaʼiyat of Omar Khayyam

This is a new selection from the Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, the famed poet of Iran. It differs from other selections in that the entries here are chosen with emphasis on authenticity and translations are made with emphasis on accuracy. Furthermore, all historical, religious and mystical allusions, hard to understand, are fully annotated. The translator renders faithfully and beautifully the selections from the Ruba'iyat into English quatrains that not only reflect the sense, but also the sound and the style of the original work, noted for simplicity, spontaneity and poetic beauty.

Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

A work of staggering poetic beauty that has inspired the likes of John Ruskin, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Bly, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was written in eleventh-century Persia and was largely unknown in the West until it was translated into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859. In FitzGerald's hands, the individual Persian quatrains of the original coalesced into one of the most moving and often-cited modern poetic statements about loss, longing, and nostalgia. As Robert D. Richardson notes, The Rubaiyat is startlingly modern in its outlook and composition, and through it, one civilization speaks to another as equals and across a gap of almost a thousand years.

Annotated by Richardson and illustrated beautifully with the elegant watercolors of Lincoln Perry, this edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam will bring this affirmed classic to a new generation of readers. It is the perfect complement to Richardson's “biography” of The Rubaiyat, Nearer to the Heart's Desire.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

In the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they were rediscovered and translated into beautiful English--more than seven centuries later--by a gentleman and scholar named Edward FitzGerald. It was a meeting of minds, a great collaboration of the past and the present, and FitzGerald's rendition of those passionate verses has become one of the best loved poem cycles in the English language. With their concern for the here and now, as opposed to the hereafter, Omar Khayyam's quatrains are as romantic today as they were hundreds of years ago; they are a tribute to the power of one moment's pleasure over a lifetime of sorrow, of desire over the vicissitudes of time. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, presented here with Edward FitzGerald's original preface, is truly a classic, and it will stand forever as one of our finest monuments to love.

The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam for Students of Persian Literature: Bilingual Edition with Transliteration of the Persian (Farsi)

Since leaving his homeland after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Kuros Amouzgar witnessed his children and many other second generation Iranians who were eager to learn more about their own heritage, but who were unable to read the language of their parents. He decided to use the quatrains of Omar Khayyam as a vehicle to introduce a small section of Persian literature, philosophy and culture to his children and grandchildren's generation. Khayyam's poems are well-known both in the Persian original and in the English speaking world through the translations of Edward FitzGerald. Unfortunately, for the student, FitzGerald's literary and inspirational poem are not exact translations of the Persian. In this volume, each poem is presented in the original Persian in both the Persian and Latin alphabet. In addition a literal translation and the corresponding poetic translation by FitzGerald are given. The more difficult terms are further explained. Also included is a Persian-English glossary.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Though it's difficult to imagine, these 12th-century stanzas-oft quoted and frequently looked to for inspiration by those seeking to live life to the fullest-did not come to the public's attention until Edward FitzGerald published them in English in 1859... and even then they were ignored until the painter Dante Rossetti discovered a remaindered copy two years later and excitedly spread news of it around his intellectual and artistic circles. Not a direct translation, these liberal interpretations make Khayym's verse accessible to readers in the English language. Several editions of FitzGerald's work are included in this volume, allowing the reader multiple approaches to their wisdom and beauty.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (歐瑪爾．海亞姆的魯拜集)

Persian Literature: The Sháh Námeh, The Rubáiyát, The Divan, And The Gulistan

Anthology of classic Persian (Iranian) literature, including The Shah Nameh by Firdusi (translationed by James Atkinson), The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated by Edward Fitzgerald), The Divan by Hafiz (translated by H. Bicknell, and The Gulistan by Sa'di (translated by James Ross). Both volumes in a single file.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published is reissued in a bicentennial edition with a sumptuous new look.

Edward FitzGerald's much-loved, often-quoted, best-selling 1859 translation of the Rubaiyat (650 editions in 150 years), with Attar's charming narrative poem, Bird Parliament. Extensive new introduction with notes and chronology.

Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-poet of Persia : Translated Into English Verse

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-poet of Persia

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Being a Reprint of Edward FitzGerald's 4th English Translation

The Sufism of the Rubáiyát; Or, The Secret of the Great Paradox

The Calendar of Omar Khayyám: Being Excerpts from the Quatrains of the Poet of Naishápúr

The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyām: Being a Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a Transcript Into Modern Persian Characters, Translated, with and Introd. and Notes, and a Bibliography, and Some Sidelights Upon Edward Fitzgerald's Poem

The Lover's Rubáiyát

Sufi Interpretations of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam and Fitzgerald

Audiobooks

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald is one of our best-loved books of poetry - and for good reason. Cynical, self-deprecating, witty, mystical, in love with wine and beauty while aware of life and death, Omar's poems put many thoughts we have all had into words we can all enjoy.
Fitzgerald first published his translations of Omar's quatrains in 1859, and came out with expanded editions in the later years of the 19th century. This recording draws out the best and most lively versions of each quatrain and links them together thematically, following Fitzgerald's developing arrangements to bring out the bist in his work - and Omar Khayyam's.

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