'A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou ...' When Edward Fitzgerald first published his translation of the poetry of Omar Khayy???m in 1859 it had little impact on the literary world. But a chance find in a bookshop by a friend of the Pre-Raphaelites led to it being taken up by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, and from then on its popularity grew. Since then, it has become one of the most popular poems. In turn, it has influenced writers such as Matthew Arnold and Thomas ...
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'A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou ...' When Edward Fitzgerald first published his translation of the poetry of Omar Khayy???m in 1859 it had little impact on the literary world. But a chance find in a bookshop by a friend of the Pre-Raphaelites led to it being taken up by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, and from then on its popularity grew. Since then, it has become one of the most popular poems. In turn, it has influenced writers such as Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy, not to mention many musicians and film-makers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Omar Khayy???m (1048-1131) was a Persian poet and philosopher who lived at the court of Malik Shah. He was also an astronomer and a mathematician. A manuscript of some of his rub???iy???t (four-line verses) survives in the Bodleian Library and a copy of this manuscript is thought to have inspired Fitzgerald to begin the translation. Fitzgerald's mystical and sensual version of Omar Khayy???m's quatrains is freely translated and restructured to follow the course of a day. The epigrammatic stanzas, infused with a melancholy yet consoling philosophy that urges readers to seize the day and 'make the most of what we yet may spend', have proved to be enduringly intriguing and popular. Through brilliant imagery they celebrate the sensuous pleasures of life - wine, food, love - while also mourning the painful truth of its brevity. This decorative edition features gorgeous colour illustrations with an oriental theme by Ren??? Bull, first published in 1913, which provide a perfect counterpoint to the lines of this extraordinarily influential poem.
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Add this copy of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Illustrated Collector's to cart. $3.98, good condition, Sold by Zoom Books East rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Glendale Heights, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Add this copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Illustrated By Edmund Dulac to cart. $450.00, good condition, Sold by Orrin Schwab - BOOKS rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Providence, UT, UNITED STATES, published 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton.
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Good+ Full deluxe leather binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. No copyright date listed, but probably 1910's. Full brown leather binding, with raised bands on the spine and gold-decorated covers and spine. There is wear to the spine edges and corners, with the corners just starting to rub through. Some discoloration to the leather, and some staining to the edges of the back cover. The illustration pages and tissue guards have dampstaining at the bottom edge, but the text pages do not The binding is tight. The color beautiful illustrations by Edmund Dulac are all present. An early edition in a beautiful binding.; 189 pages.
