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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Omar Khayyam
SeriesThe Great Poets
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 214,Width 128
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781780228297
ClassificationsDewey:891.5511
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date 12 June 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published, brought up to date with a sumptuous new look. Edward FitzGerald's much-loved, often-quoted, bestselling 1859 translation of the RUBAIYAT, with Attar's charming narrative poem, BIRD PARLIAMENT. Also featuring an extensive new introduction with notes and chronology. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that put the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

Author Biography

Anthony Briggs, Emeritus Professor of Russian at Birmingham University, Senior Research Fellow at Bristol University, is a well-known writer and broadcaster on Russian cultural affairs and European poetry. His recent translation of WAR AND PEACE was critically acclaimed. Among his many publications are six editions in the Everyman poetry series.

Reviews

an attractive new edition with a lengthy essay by Tony Briggs, who characterises the poem, memorably, as "the story of the apocalypse told to us by a kind uncle" * DAILY MAIL * a lovely new edition... Professor Briggs does us all a favour by putting before our red and weary eyes FitzGerald and this legacy from an older Iran. -- Libby Purves * TIMES *