| Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: With Paintings by Lincoln Perry and an Introduction and Notes by Robert D. Richardson Contributor(s): Khayyam, Omar (Author), Perry, Lincoln (Illustrator), Richardson, Robert D. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 162040656X ISBN-13: 9781620406564 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - Poetry | Epic |
| Dewey: 891.551 |
| LCCN: 2016479276 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 7.5" (0.70 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |