A Bibliography of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Georg Olms Verlag, 1929 - 313 pages
 

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TEXT OF FITZGERALDS SECOND VERSION
39
TEXT SELECTED FROM ALL OF FITZGERALDS VERSIONS
49
FITZGERALDS VERSIONS PUBLISHED ABROAD
57
VERSIONS IN ENGLISH OTHER THAN FITZGERALDS
101
ORIENTAL VERSIONS
159
BILINGUAL VERSIONS
167
THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB
207
PROSE ON THE RUBAIYAT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
229
VERSE FOUNDED ON OR IN THE METRE OF THE RUBAIYÁT
235
IX
269
LITHOGRAPHED AND PRINTED TEXTS CHIEFLY IN PERSIAN
307
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Page xi - I give them to. But when one has done one's best, and is sure that that best is better than so many will take pains to do, though far from the best that might be done, one likes to make an end of the matter by Print. I suppose very few People have ever taken such Pains in Translation as I have : though certainly not to be literal.
Page xi - I suppose you would think it a dangerous thing to edit Omar: else, who so proper? Nay, are you not the only Man to do it ? And he certainly is worth good re-editing. I thought him from the first the most remarkable of the Persian Poets : and you keep finding out in him Evidences of logical Fancy which I had not dreamed of. I dare say these logical Riddles are not his best: but they are yet evidences of a Strength of mind which our Persian Friends rarely exhibit, I think. I always said about Cowley,...
Page xiv - That Lenten fare makes Lenten thought, Who reads your golden Eastern lay, Than which I know no version done In English more divinely well; A planet equal to the sun Which cast it, that large infidel Your Omar...
Page xi - I doubt I have given but a very one-sided version of Omar : but what I do only comes up as a Bubble to the Surface, and breaks : whereas you, with exact scholarship, might make a lasting impression of such an Author.

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