Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

by FitzGerald, Edward; Karlin, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780199542970
• ISBN10: 019954297X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a collection of poems authored by Persian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam. The poems in this title are written into quatrains, Rubaiyat being arabic for root of four, as in four line verses of which quatrains are made up of. This popular edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the edition by Edward Fitzgerald, who translated this work in the late 19th century.

Author Biography

Daniel Karlin has taught at University College London and Boston University before coming to Sheffield in 2006. His books include The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett (OUP, 1985), Proust's English (OUP, 2005), an edition of Browning's courtship correspondence, editions of Browning, Kipling, and Rider Haggard's She for OWC, and The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Note on the Text

Notre on the Pronunciation and Transcription of Persian Words

Select Bibliography

A Chronology of Edward FitzGerald

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Tables of Corresponding Stanzas

Contemporary responses

Tennyson, 'To E. FitzGerald'Variants

Explanatory Notes

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