FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Popularity and Neglect

Sandra Mason editor William H Martin editor Adrian Poole editor Christine van Ruymbeke editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Anthem Press

Published:1st Jul '11

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A major new analysis of FitzGerald’s ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’, exploring the reasons for its academic neglect despite its general fame.

For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald’s ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect.

Edward FitzGerald's ‘Rubáiyát’, loosely based on verses attributed to the eleventh-century Persian writer, Omar Khayyám, has become one of the most widely known poems in the world, republished virtually every year from 1879 to the present day, and translated into over eighty different languages. And yet it has been largely ignored or at best patronized by the academic establishment. This volume sets out to explore the reasons for both the popularity and the neglect.

‘[“Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Famous Poem and Its Influence” and “FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect”] are dual complementary works of scholarship, reflection, and academic research, in the strongest sense of the adjectives. Scholars, academics, literary critics, translators, and those who love poetry and share Khayyam’s and FitzGerald’s twofold concerns with the human lived experience of being and nonbeing will find these twin texts of much interest.’ —Erick Nakjavani, ‘Iranian Studies’

ISBN: 9780857287816

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 26mm

Weight: 590g

296 pages