Description: THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM OLD BOOK EDWARD FITZGERALD BARSE HOPKINS. published by Barse & Hopkins, New York. not dated. probably about 100 years old.55 pages in good condition for an very old boom with some yellowing, a few little spots here or there. embossed paper covered boards very good with some wear, edge wear, bumping wear on corners, spine edges. gold lettering on front cover. book measures 7" by 4 1/4" The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám ( Persian : رباعیات عمر خیام ) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet , mathematician and astronomer . A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs ) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning " quatrains Thank you for looking at my listings. Please look at the photographs to help determine the condition, and ask any questions if you need to know anything else Edward FitzGerald ( 31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883 ) was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam .Beginning in 1859, FitzGerald authorized four editions and had a fifth posthumous edition of his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of which three (the first, second, and fifth) differ significantly; the second and third are almost identical, as are the fourth and fifth. The first and fifth editions are almost equally reprinted [7 ][ 8] and equally often anthologized. [9 ] A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness— Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! Stanza XI above, from the fifth edition, differs from the corresponding stanza in the first edition, wherein it reads: "Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the bough/A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou". Other differences are discernible. Stanza LXIX is more well known in its incarnation in the first edition: 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. The fifth edition is less familiar: "But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays/Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days".FitzGerald's translation of the Rubáiyát is notable for being a work to which allusions are both frequent and ubiquitous. [5 ] It remains popular, but enjoyed its greatest popularity for a century following its publication, wherein it formed part of the wider English literary canon. [5 ]One indicator of the popular status of the Rubáiyát is that, of the 107 stanzas in the poem's fifth edition, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2nd edition) quotes no less than 43 entire stanzas in full, in addition to many individual lines and couplets. Stanza LI, also well-known, runs: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Lines and phrases from the poem have been used as the titles of many literary works, amongst them Nevil Shute 's The Chequer Board , James Michener 's The Fires of Spring and Agatha Christie 's The Moving Finger ; Eugene O'Neill 's Ah, Wilderness alludes to the Rubáiyát without being a direct quotation. Allusions to it are frequent in the short stories of O. Henry ;[ 10 ] Saki 's nom-de-plume makes reference to it PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT MY COLLECTION OF OTHER COOL STUFF I HAVE LISTED.
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