The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam de Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

Edward (TRN) Fitzgerald

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2007

"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou . . ." is one of the most famous poetic lines ever written. One of the great achievements of poetry, "The Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam, was written in Persian in the 11th century. Omar Khayyam was a consummate philosopher and astronomer whose work extended far beyond the "Rubaiyat, " but it is this work that survives today, a testament to the power and grace of Islamic and Persian culture at this time. "The Rubaiyat" is one of the most lyrical poetic works ever composed, and English-speaking readers know Khayyam's work through the translation of Edward Fitzgerald, which is presented here. The title "Rubaiyat" itself is derived from the Arabic word for "four," and the poems are written in a series of quatrains. Plays that include Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness " and phrases such as "The Moving Finger" are inspired by "The Rubaiyat." As did Shakespeare's lines, so do Khayyam's exquisite expressions, that are able to speak even in translation, still move the world.

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Omar Khayyam was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in the later part of the 11th century. His poetry, which received very little notoriety in its day, achieved classic status when it was discovered and rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald more than 700 years later. Presented here are the traditionally collected first and fifth editions with the original notes and Introduction by Fitzgerald.

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Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. As a mathematician, he is most notable for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations, where he provided geometric solutions by the intersection of conics. As an astronomer, he composed a calendar which proved to be a more accurate computation of time than that proposed five centuries later by Pope Gregory XIII. Omar was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran. He spent most of his life near the court of the Karakhanid and Seljuq rulers in the period which witnessed the First Crusade. There is a tradition of attributing poetry to Omar Khayyam, written in the form of quatrains. This poetry became widely known to the English-reading world due to the translation by Edward FitzGerald (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1859), which enjoyed great success in the Orientalism of the fin de siècle.