Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward Fitzgerald
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Written in Persian in the eleventh century, Omar Khayyam's quatrains, known as rubai , were written individually for an audience at court, and explored the meanings of life, love, and friendship. They were almost completely unknown in the West until Edward FitzGerald--himself a relatively obscure critic--translated and organized some one hundred of them into a unified whole that he called The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , which he published anonymously...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1620406535
ISBN13:9781620406533
Release Date:June 2016
Publisher:Bloomsbury USA
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.2"
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