FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and NeglectAdrian Poole, Christine van Ruymbeke, William H. Martin, Sandra Mason Edward FitzGerald's ‘Rubáiyát’, loosely based on verses attributed to the eleventh-century Persian writer, Omar Khayyám, has become one of the most widely known poems in the world, republished virtually every year from 1879 to the present day, and translated into over eighty different languages. And yet it has been largely ignored or at best patronized by the academic establishment. This volume sets out to explore the reasons for both the popularity and the neglect. |
Contents
Edward FitzGerald Omar Khayyám and | 1 |
Much Ado about Nothing in the Rubaiyát | 15 |
Syntax and Sexuality | 27 |
Edward FitzGeralds | 45 |
FitzGeralds Rubáiyát and Agnosticism | 55 |
The Similar Lives and Different Destinies of Thomas | 73 |
The Second 1862 Pirate Edition of the Rubaiyát | 93 |
A Polymaths Approach | 109 |
The Imagined Elites of the Omar Khayyám Club | 147 |
Le Galliennes Paraphrase and the Limits | 175 |
The Rubaiyát | 193 |
The Vogue of the English Rubáiyát and Dedicatory | 213 |
The Illustration of FitzGeralds Rubáiyát | 233 |
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American Reprint | 127 |
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