TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloom, Harold, ed.
TI  - Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
T2  - Viva Modern Critical Interpretations
SN  - 8130904640
U1  - 891.5511 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Viva
KW  - Edward Fitzgerald
KW  - Omar Kahyyam
KW  - Rubaiyat
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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
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