FitzGerald’s Rub�iy�t of Omar Khayy�m: Popularity and Neglect (Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series) - Softcover

9781783080717: FitzGerald’s Rub�iy�t of Omar Khayy�m: Popularity and Neglect (Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178308071X ISBN 13: 9781783080717

Publisher: Anthem Press, 2013

Edward FitzGerald's ‘Rub�iy�t’, loosely based on verses attributed to the eleventh-century Persian writer, Omar Khayy�m, 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.

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Book Description

A major new analysis of FitzGerald’s ‘Rub�iy�t of Omar Khayy�m’, exploring the reasons for its academic neglect despite its general fame.

About the Author

Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Christine van Ruymbeke is Soudavar Lecturer in Persian Studies at the University of Cambridge, and was formerly Lecturer at the Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). William H. Martin and Sandra Mason are independent researchers with a long-standing interest in FitzGerald’s Rub�iy�t of Omar Khayy�m.

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