Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

by Khayyam, Omar

• ISBN13: 9780828314527
• ISBN10: 0828314527
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1969-06-01
• Publisher: Branden Pub Co
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Summary

In the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they were rediscovered and translated into beautiful English--more than seven centuries later--by a gentleman and scholar named Edward FitzGerald. It was a meeting of minds, a great collaboration of the past and the present, and FitzGerald's rendition of those passionate verses has become one of the best loved poem cycles in the English language. With their concern for the here and now, as opposed to the hereafter, Omar Khayyam's quatrains are as romantic today as they were hundreds of years ago; they are a tribute to the power of one moment's pleasure over a lifetime of sorrow, of desire over the vicissitudes of time. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, presented here with Edward FitzGerald's original preface, is truly a classic, and it will stand forever as one of our finest monuments to love.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
The Ruba'iyat and Its Author	p. 1
Selections from the Ruba'iyat	p. 39
Of Spring and Flowers	p. 47
Of Love and Wine	p. 55
Fiery Sparks	p. 79
Cynical and Satirical Utterances	p. 99
Mystery of Creation	p. 111
Transitoriness of Life	p. 133
Aphorisms and Apothegms	p. 167
Discontent	p. 185
Mystic Passages	p. 205
Contemplation and Supplication	p. 225
Annotations	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 259
Index of English Quatrains	p. 265
General Index	p. 273
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