Nearer the Heart's Desire
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Nearer the Heart's Desire

Poets of the Rubaiyat

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Nearer the Heart's Desire

Poets of the Rubaiyat

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Written in Persian in the eleventh century, Omar Khayyam's quatrains, known as rubai, were written individually for an audience at court, and explored the meanings of life, love, and friendship. They were almost completely unknown in the West until Edward FitzGerald--himself a relatively obscure critic--translated and organized some one hundred of them into a unified whole that he called The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which he published anonymously in 1859. Ignored initially, it soon became a sensation--and FitzGerald with it, his work now translated into seventy languages--and one of the most-read works of literature of all time.
Deftly and eloquently recounting in turn the life stories of Khayyam and FitzGerald, linking them over the span of eight centuries, acclaimed biographer Robert Richardson has crafted the story of the legendary Rubaiyat itself, illuminating a literary classic and reinforcing its place in the canon of great world literature.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Year
2016
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9781620406557
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. By the Same Author
  4. Title
  5. Contents
  6. Authorā€™s Note
  7. PART I
  8. Chapter 1: Omar Khayyam and His Rubaiyat
  9. Chapter 2: The Legend of the Three Students
  10. Chapter 3: The World of Omar Khayyam: Nishapur, Khorasan, and Seljuq Persia
  11. Chapter 4: The Early Years of Omar Khayyam
  12. Chapter 5: Omar Khayyam and the Court of the Seljuqs
  13. Chapter 6: Omar Khayyam and His Associates, 1075ā€“1090
  14. Chapter 7: The Disastrous Decade: The 1090s
  15. Chapter 8: The Sufi Turn
  16. Chapter 9: Omar Khayyamā€™s Rubaiyat
  17. Chapter 10: Later Life and Last Day of Omar Khayyam
  18. Interlude: The Destruction of Nishapur
  19. PART II
  20. Chapter 11: London, 1861: FitzGeraldā€™s Rubaiyat Appears
  21. Chapter 12: FitzGeraldā€™s Family and Early Years
  22. Chapter 13: School Years
  23. Chapter 14: Thackeray
  24. Chapter 15: Tennyson
  25. Chapter 16: Carlyle
  26. Chapter 17: Bachelor Life
  27. Chapter 18: A Friendship Like a Love: William Kenworthy Browne
  28. Chapter 19: Poetry
  29. Chapter 20: FitzGerald at Work: Editing and Assembly; the Example of Barton
  30. Chapter 21: FitzGerald and Persia
  31. Chapter 22: Rendering Rubaiyat
  32. Chapter 23: Translated or Rendered?
  33. Chapter 24: Gerontion: The Last Years of Edward FitzGerald
  34. Chapter 25: The Lucretian Parallel
  35. Chapter 26: FitzGeraldā€™s Rubaiyat Now
  36. Image Credits
  37. Notes
  38. Index
  39. A Note on the Author
  40. Copyright

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