Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: With Paintings by Lincoln Perry and an Introduction and Notes by Robert D. Richardson
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 almos…
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Weitere Autoren: Richardson, Robert D. (Solist) / Perry, Lincoln (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-62040-656-4
- EAN: 9781620406564
- Produktnummer: 18836980
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Masse: H19.3 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.7 cm 358 g
- Gewicht: 358
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Edward FitzGerald and Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Lincoln Perry
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