Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The - Edward FitzGerald - Folio Society - 2012
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The - Edward FitzGerald - Folio Society - 2012
$200.00
First issued in 1859, Fitzgerald's English poem recasts Persian quatrains associated with Omar Khayyam as a continuous meditation on wine, time, and unbelief. A speaker in a garden or tavern watches the rose fade, doubts mosque and school, and prefers the cup to promises of a world to come. Later editions expand and rearrange the stanzas. Images of potter, clay, and moving finger return as the argument against piety and ambition. The work is a Victorian poetic adaptation.
Edition details
- Publisher: Folio Society
- Edition year: 2012
- Volumes: 1
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