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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Omar Khayyam • Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
- LITERATURE
- 1989
- PAPER
- 52 PAGES
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This edition of one of the best-known poems ever -- as translated by Edward Fitzgerald -- features an introduction by novelist A.S. Byatt and color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Never mind whether these are really the verses of the 12th-century poet (there is little doubt that Fitzgerald interpreted the original Sufi text through a western lens); the popularity of this book tells much about Victorian fascination with all things "oriental."
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