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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Edward Fitzgerald
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Description for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Paperback. Provides a context for the "Rubaiyat" that reveals how its composition was so often a collaborative enterprise. This book includes biographical and textual introductions, making use of FitzGerald's correspondence, to trace the history of the poem, and focuses on FitzGerald's motives for revising it. Editor(s): Decker, Christopher. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
Edward FitzGerald's translation of the ""Rubaiyat"" of Omar Khayyam, perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem and certainly one of the most popular poems in the English language, poses formidable challenges to an editor. FitzGerald compulsively revised his work, alternately swayed by friends' advice, importuned by his publisher's commercial interests, and encouraged by public acclaim. In consequence, the editor is faced with four published editions as well as manuscript and proof versions of the poem. Christopher Decker's critical edition of the ""Rubaiyat"" is the first to publish all extant states of the poem and to unearth a full record of ... Read more
Edward FitzGerald's translation of the ""Rubaiyat"" of Omar Khayyam, perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem and certainly one of the most popular poems in the English language, poses formidable challenges to an editor. FitzGerald compulsively revised his work, alternately swayed by friends' advice, importuned by his publisher's commercial interests, and encouraged by public acclaim. In consequence, the editor is faced with four published editions as well as manuscript and proof versions of the poem. Christopher Decker's critical edition of the ""Rubaiyat"" is the first to publish all extant states of the poem and to unearth a full record of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927251
SKU
V9780813927251
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About Edward Fitzgerald
Christopher Decker is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has also published articles on allusion, literary influence, the history of reading, and appropriations of Shakespeare in Victorian poetry and culture.
Reviews for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
A model of contemporary textual scholarship. - Nineteenth-Century Literature ""Christopher Decker has come forward with a splendid critical edition of the poem, containing FitzGerald's introductory essay and notes to each version. It prints all four printed versions along with manuscript variants and, most usefully indeed, appends a comparative version in which each quatrain appears in a column with its variants ... Read more