Author: FITZGERALD EDWARD, TRANSLATOR
Title: Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyáM Introduction by Jerome H. Buckley
Description: New York: Collier Books, 1962. First Trade Edition. Mass Market. Mass Market Paperback with edgewear, small sticker stain on upper right hand corner of front cover, previous owner's name on back of front cover. Clean, tight copy. "When Edward Fitzgerald translated these 11th-century Persian poems in 1859 they became something of a sensation after one admiring reader passed them on to his friends--a circle that included Browning, Rosetti, and Tennyson. Omar Khayyam was famous in his own day as a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, and although his mathematical studies were once hugely influential in the West, he is known to much of the world today as a poet, and his RUBAIYAT as the chief exemplar of the Arabic verse form "roba'i, " a poem composed in quatrains in which the first, second and fourth lines rhyme. " ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 121 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Persian Poetry, Middle Eastern Poetry Classics
Title: Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyáM Introduction by Jerome H. Buckley
Description: New York: Collier Books, 1962. First Trade Edition. Mass Market. Mass Market Paperback with edgewear, small sticker stain on upper right hand corner of front cover, previous owner's name on back of front cover. Clean, tight copy. "When Edward Fitzgerald translated these 11th-century Persian poems in 1859 they became something of a sensation after one admiring reader passed them on to his friends--a circle that included Browning, Rosetti, and Tennyson. Omar Khayyam was famous in his own day as a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, and although his mathematical studies were once hugely influential in the West, he is known to much of the world today as a poet, and his RUBAIYAT as the chief exemplar of the Arabic verse form "roba'i, " a poem composed in quatrains in which the first, second and fourth lines rhyme. " ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 121 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Persian Poetry, Middle Eastern Poetry Classics
Price: US$ 18.25 Seller: Bytown Bookery
- Book number: 2037
- Book number: 2037