The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the astronomer poet of Persia, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald; the text of the fourth edition followed by that of the first, with notes showing the extent of his indebtedness to the Persian original, a biographical preface, Fitzgerald's sketch of the life of Omar, and a foreword by Talcott Williams.
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TextPublication details: Philadelphia, H. T. Coates and company, 1898.Description: lxxi, [1], 75 p. incl. front. 18 x 13 cmUniform titles: - Rubāʻīyāt. English
- PK6513 .A1 1898a
Contents:
Omar--fore-word and fore-plea, by Talcott Williams.--To E. Fitzgerald, by Alfred, lord Tennyson.--Biographical preface, by Michael Kearney.--A rose-tree from Omar's tomb, by Edmund Gosse.--Omar Khayyám's grave, by William Simpson.--Omar Khayyám [sonnet] by Graham R. Tomson.--[Omar Khayyám, poem by J. H. McCarthy]--Omar Khayyám, by Edward Fitzgerald.--Rubáiyat (4th ed., 1st ed.)--Notes [by William Aldis Wright]--Notes by the editor.
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Omar--fore-word and fore-plea, by Talcott Williams.--To E. Fitzgerald, by Alfred, lord Tennyson.--Biographical preface, by Michael Kearney.--A rose-tree from Omar's tomb, by Edmund Gosse.--Omar Khayyám's grave, by William Simpson.--Omar Khayyám [sonnet] by Graham R. Tomson.--[Omar Khayyám, poem by J. H. McCarthy]--Omar Khayyám, by Edward Fitzgerald.--Rubáiyat (4th ed., 1st ed.)--Notes [by William Aldis Wright]--Notes by the editor.
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