The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / rendered into English quatrains by Edward FitzGerald. The five authorized versions.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / rendered into English quatrains by Edward FitzGerald. The five authorized versions.
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Publication Date:
1970, 1942
Publication Information:
New York : Published for the Classics club by W. J. Black
Physical Description:
178 p. : ill.
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Contents:
Edward FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat, by G. S. Haight.--First version, 1859.--Omar Khayyam the astronomer poet of Persia, by Edward FitzGerald.--Second version, 1808.--Facsimiles from the Bodleian manuscript of Omar Khayyam.--FitzGerald's Introduction to the third version.--Third version, 1872, fourth version, 1879, and fifth version, 1889.--Notes to the second version.--Vocabulary--Comparative tables of stanzas in the five versions.
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English
General Note:
"Edited with introduction and glossary by Gordon S. Haight."
