Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0312695276 / ISBN 13: 9780312695279

Edité par St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1983

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First printing thus, near fine brown cloth hardcover shows just a touch of shelf and trace wear, else tight and clean, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows hint of toning to spine and fore edges, light soil and edgewear that includes a couple of closed tears at top edge. 75 pages nicely illustrated. Still a solid copy in jacket of this 1983 edition of these poems from the astronomer-poet of Persia originally translated into English by Fitzgerald in 1859.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Éditeur: St. Martin's Press, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0312695276
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780312695279
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Sullivan, Edmund T.
• Édition: First thus.
• État de l'article: Near fine
• État de la jaquette: Very good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry & Drama

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Synopsis

Book by Khayyam Omar

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam is a poem of high divine and spiritual meaning. The beauty and simplicity of this poem is so immaculate that people of all faiths and those who have no faith at all can seek divine solace in it. Omar has used popular metaphors in his passionate praise of wine and love. They are mere symbols of Sufism where wine is the joy of spirit and the love is immense devotion to God. Omar has presented the nectar of divine ecstasy as a delightful alternative that leads to human enlightenment and eradicates human woe permanently. He has pictured the ordinary joys of life for the worldly men are able to compare the mundane pleasures with the superior joys of spiritual life. The literal meaning of the translated verses is completely absurd but the vast inner meanings are like a golden treasure house. But the spiritual power inherent in this poem is a characteristic of the Persian poems which have an outer as well as inner meaning. While the west has interpreted Omar’s poems as highly erotic, the East has accepted him as a religious poet. Plumbing into the depths of the poem gives interpretations that make it appear like a shrine which is untouched. Omar has distinctly suggested that wine symbolizes intoxication of spiritual joy and love. Some translators have interpreted the verses saying that the whole poem is an evocation of agnosticism and has a philosophy which seeks happiness through friendships and the avoidance of pain. It suggests brevity of life and the absence of an after life.