The Rubaiyatby Omar Khayyam | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Poetry Collections" |
| Pages: | 75 |
| Year of Publication: | 1100 |
| Date Read: | 05/06/1993 |
| Notes: | A collection of the poetry of the 12th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam, as compiled and translated by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. The quatrains have the rhyme scheme aaba. “Rubaiyat” means “quatrains.” Fitzgerald was a poet rather than a scholar, and contemporary scholars now question the attribution of many of the poems in the collection, including some of the best-known verses. Fitzgerald’s writing was ingenious, but much different than Omar Khayyam’s, which, in the 50 quatrains known to be written by him, is concise, pithy, simple and contains references to the subjects in which he was accomplished — astronomy, metaphysics and science. |
| My Rating: | 6 |