Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Jan 1989 · Branden Books
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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.
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Even though I have heard that the translation exceeds the original (a statement I can not verify), this is one of the finest works of the the English language. With alternating sentiments between the passions of love and drink deeply for tomorrow we die. This is the one book I would take to a desert island.
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February 29, 2012
Fantastic read. Depth in each quatrain. I love almost all translations of Rubaiyat and Fitzgerald has done great.
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