An edition of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1952)

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An edition of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1952)

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem and certainly one of the most popular poems in the English language, poses formidable challenges to an editor. FitzGerald compulsively revised his work, alternately swayed by friends' advice, importuned by his publisher's commercial interests, and encouraged by public acclaim. In consequence, the editor is faced with four published editions as well as manuscript and proof versions of the poem.

Christopher Decker's critical edition of the Rubaiyat is the first to publish all extant states of the poems and to unearth a full record of its complicated textual evolution.

Decker supplies a rich interpretive context for the Rubaiyat that reveals how its composition was so often a collaborative enterprise. His view of poetic creativity comprehends recent theories of the sociology of texts and challenges the common assumption that the desired product of a critical edition is a single unified text of a literary work. He illuminates the complex process of revision by providing a textual appendix in which a comparative printing lays down each stratum of FitzGerald's composition.

Biographical and textual introductions, making imaginative use of FitzGerald's correspondence, trace the history of the poem and pay special attention to FitzGerald's motives for revising, for creating a variously beautiful work in verse.

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English
Pages
160

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
October 27, 2005, bnpublishing.com
CD-ROM
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
August 2003, Kessinger Publishing
Paperback in English
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
April 1, 2001, Classic Books
Paperback
Cover of: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
December 1999, Ibex Publishers
Paperback in English
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Critical Edition (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
February 1997, Bibliographical Society of University of Virg
Hardcover in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Ruba'Iyat of Omar Khayyam
Ruba'Iyat of Omar Khayyam
March 1996, DIANE Publishing Company
Paperback in English
Cover of: Ruba'Iyat of Omar Khayyam
Ruba'Iyat of Omar Khayyam
March 1995, Diane Books Publishing Company
Hardcover in English
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
December 31, 1988, Penguin Books Ltd
Hardcover
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
June 1986, Olympic Marketing Corp
Hardcover
Cover of: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
1965, Collins
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Rubâaiyâat of Omar Khayyâam
Rubâaiyâat of Omar Khayyâam
1952, Doubleday
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First Sentence

"EDWARD FitzGerald undertook the study of Persian in 1853 when he was about forty-four years of age."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
160
Dimensions
10.8 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
Weight
13.6 ounces

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Open Library
OL8061296M
ISBN 10
0766176673
ISBN 13
9780766176676
OCLC/WorldCat
71280808
Library Thing
120890
Goodreads
86556

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EDWARD FitzGerald undertook the study of Persian in 1853 when he was about forty-four years of age.
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