Rubaiyat of omar khayyam

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`The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.'

In the `rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Omar is neither a translation nor an independent poem; sceptical of divine providence and insistent on the pleasure of the passing moment, its `Orientalism' offers FitzGerald a powerful and distinctive voice, in whose accents a whole Victorian generation comes to life. Although the poem's vision is bleak, it is conveyed in some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry---and some of the sharpest-edged. The poem sold no copies at all on its first appearance in 1859, yet when it was `discovered' two years later its first admirers included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on `human death and fate'.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 10 juni 2010

Aantal pagina's: 167

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Edward Fitzgerald

Tweede Auteur: Omar Khayyäm

Co Auteur: Heron-Allen, Edward

Hoofdillustrator: Edmund Sullivan

Tweede Illustrator: Edmund Sullivan

Hoofdredacteur: Christopher Decker

Tweede Redacteur: Thomas C. Myers Jr

Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 17 mm

Product lengte: 195 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 128 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 18 mm

Verpakking lengte: 195 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 374 g

EAN: 9780199580507

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