Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Omar Khayyam
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Author: Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald

Narrator: Robert Bethune

Unabridged: 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2010

Categories: Fiction, Poetry


Synopsis

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald is one of our best-loved books of poetry - and for good reason. Cynical, self-deprecating, witty, mystical, in love with wine and beauty while aware of life and death, Omar's poems put many thoughts we have all had into words we can all enjoy.
Fitzgerald first published his translations of Omar's quatrains in 1859, and came out with expanded editions in the later years of the 19th century. This recording draws out the best and most lively versions of each quatrain and links them together thematically, following Fitzgerald's developing arrangements to bring out the bist in his work - and Omar Khayyam's.

A Freshwater Seas production.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on January 15, 2015

I kept thinking about the Rubaiyat last week while I was translating Zep's Happy Sex. I understand that Fitzgerald's translation is extremely non-literal, and almost amounts to a new poem - there is a nice piece by Borges discussing this unusual collaboration between two poets from different culture......more

Goodreads review by فايز غازي on February 15, 2024

- كان الخيام عالماً في أمور الفلسفة، بالإضافة إلى أنّه كان طبيباً بارعاً، تخصّص الخيام في علوم اللغة والدين، مثل: الفقه، والحديث، والمنطق، والقراءات، والسير، والنحو، والصرف، والعلوم الطبيعة. (ذكرت ما سبق كي يدري من لا يدري انه بصدد هامة كبيرة وليس شاعر يرمي الشعر بعد كأسي خمر!). - يلتقي الخيام بأبي ا......more