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" Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / "
rendered into English verse by Edward FitzGerald ; with illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan.
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BL
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1042127
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b796497
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| Uniform Title
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Rubāʻīyāt.English
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| Main Entry
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Omar Khayyam
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| Title & Author
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám /\ rendered into English verse by Edward FitzGerald ; with illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan.
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[First edition].
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: St. Martin's Press,, [1983]
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, ©1983
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16 unnumbered, 75 pages :: illustrations ;; 18 cm
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| ISBN
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0312695276
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: 9780312695279
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| Notes
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Half title.
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Translation of: Rubāʻīyāt.
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Includes bibliographical notes and references.
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| Abstract
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In the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they were rediscovered and translated into beautiful English--more than seven centuries later--by a gentleman and scholar named Edward FitzGerald. It was a meeting of minds, a great collaboration of the past and the present, and FitzGerald's rendition of those passionate verses has become one of the best loved poem cycles in the English language. With their concern for the here and now, as opposed to the hereafter, Omar Khayyam's quatrains are as romantic today as they were hundreds of years ago; they are a tribute to the power of one moment's pleasure over a lifetime of sorrow, of desire over the vicissitudes of time. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, presented here with Edward FitzGerald's original preface, is truly a classic, and it will stand forever as one of our finest monuments to love.
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Persian poetry, Translations into English.
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Quatrains, Persian, Translations into English.
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Persian poetry.
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Quatrains, Persian.
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| Dewey Classification
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891/.5511
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| LC Classification
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PK6513.A1 1983
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FitzGerald, Edward,1809-1883
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Johnson, Holly
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Sullivan, Edmund J., (Edmund Joseph),1869-1933
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St. Martin's Press,publisher.
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