Quatrains of Many Receptions: A Survey of Perceptions of ‘Omar Khayyām in Ottoman and Turkish Translations. Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu
In: Iranian Studies, Vol. 57 (2024), 2, pp. 221–239
This article explores the wide range of responses to Persian polymath and poet ‘Omar Khayyām (d. ca. 526/1132) in Ottoman and Turkish literary sources. There is an extensive bibliography of translations and secondary literature.
Os rubaiyát’s do poeta persa Omar Khayyam. Elfi Kürten, Fenske
In: Templo Cultural Delfos (2022) Agosto
Edward FitzGerald’s „Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám“ and Related Materials. The John Roger Paas Collection. Edited by John Roger Paas. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. 1184 pages, 3 parts. Part 1+2: Text, XXII, 872 pages; Part 3: Plates, 312 pages. ISBN 9783447120906
Omar Khayyám. Una strada verso l’unità dell ‘essere e del sentire. Dario Chioli. Prima edizione: 5/1/2001; Ultimo aggiornamento: 7/2/2022
Discussion and survey of Italian translations and translators of the Rubáiyat. Contains extensive bibliographic details.
Edward FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Richard Dalby
Book and Magazine Collector (2009), nr. 314, p. 44-61.
Dalby presents a short history of the Rubáiyát and highlights the most important and best known illustrated editions, also giving prices that were realized at recent auctions. The article is illuminated with sixteen illustrations from these editions, mainly by artists from the first decades of the previous century, such as Greiffenhagen, Palmer, Robinson, Dulac, Brangwyn, Bull, Geddes and Balfour.
Selected bibliography of FitzGerald criticism, 1959-2008.
Victorian Poetry, 46 (2008), nr 1, p. 15-17.
The list includes the major critical contributions of the last fifty years. It does not include notes or short articles, nor the many editions of FitzGerald’s work, several of which contain very useful critical introductions.
Omar with a smile. Parodies in books on FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Jos Biegstraaten.
Persica 20 (2004), p. 1-37
In the spring of 1859 Edward FitzGerald had 250 copies printed of his Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Forty copies were for his own use, the remaining 210 were for sale in the bookshop of Bernard Quaritch, a London bookseller. No one was interested until 1861, when Whitley Stokes, a Celtic scholar, passed Quaritch’s bookstall and bought the book. He must have appreciated the contents, because he came back later and bought some additional copies. One of them he gave to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who introduced the quatrains to other members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, like Swinburne. The latter passed his admiration on to William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. It was the beginning of a period in which the Rubáiyát was to grow to an immense popularity in England.