Omar Khayyam

Gebundenes Buch

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

First, Second and Fifth Editions

Übersetzer: Fitzgerald, Edward

Beschreibung

Though it's difficult to imagine, these 12th-century stanzas-oft quoted and frequently looked to for inspiration by those seeking to live life to the fullest-did not come to the public's attention until Edward FitzGerald published them in English in 1859... and even then they were ignored until the painter Dante Rossetti discovered a remaindered copy two years later and excitedly spread news of it around his intellectual and artistic circles. Not a direct translation, these liberal interpretations make Khayyám's verse accessible to readers in the English language. Several editions of FitzGerald's work are included in this volume, allowing the reader multiple approaches to their wisdom and beauty.

Autor

Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. As a mathematician, he is most notable for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations, where he provided geometric solutions by the intersection of conics. As an astronomer, he composed a calendar which proved to be a more accurate computation of time than that proposed five centuries later by Pope Gregory XIII. Omar was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran. He spent most of his life near the court of the Karakhanid and Seljuq rulers in the period which witnessed the First Crusade. There is a tradition of attributing poetry to Omar Khayyam, written in the form of quatrains. This poetry became widely known to the English-reading world due to the translation by Edward FitzGerald (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1859), which enjoyed great success in the Orientalism of the fin de siècle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781605208039
• ISBN-10: 1605208035
• Artikelnr.: 28898035