Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect

Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect
ISBN-10
0857287818
ISBN-13
9780857287816
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
269
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Anthem Press
Authors
Sandra Mason, William Henry Martin, Adrian Poole

Description

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.

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