The sweetest of Fitzgerald’s quatrains. Henry E. Legler
in: Book Lover, November-December 1902, p. 464-465
Compares FitzGerald’s famous quatrain no. 12 (1879) “A Book of Verses …” with translations by other authors (Le Galienne, Curtis, Pickering, Kerney, Whinfield, Garner, Keene, Anson, Costello, Cowell and Powell.
Cosmic poetry of Omar Khayyam and its artistic exposition using batik techniques. Victoria Nikulina; Muhammad Rashid Kamal Ansari
Mystic Thoughts – Research Journal of Sufism and Peace, 1 (2015) 1, pp. 61–94.
This study compares seven translations of Omar Khayyam, five in English, one in Urdu and one in Russian. These translations are free translations from the Persian. Translators in most cases have translated giving a flavor of their own views about the poetry of Omar Khayyam. So, all the translations appear different while translating the same quatrain. Eight quatrains of Omar Khayyam which this study terms as cosmic are selected and their translations are compared. Finally, eight paintings created by one of the authors Victoria Nikulina are introduced which illustrate the cosmic views of Omar Khayyam. These paintings utilize the mediums of Batik Art
Pessoa, Borges and Khayyam. Fabrizio Boscaglia
Variaciones Borges, 2015, nr. 40, pp. 41–64.
The fascinating possibility of an encounter between Pessoa and Borges in Lisbon, in May 1924, at the end of Borges’s second trip in Europe, has been the departing point for some comparative readings on these authors (Rodriguez Monegal 15-16; Ferrari and Pizarro 91; Balderston 168). The author wants to imagine that, if it had happened, they would have discussed, among other things, a work which both would later mention in their upcoming publications and that would become an important reference to both of them. It is the Rubaiyat of the Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), in the famous English translation by the English poet Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883), first published in 1859.
Voice in Khayyam’s Rubaiyat and FitzGerald’s English translation. Saeedeh Bisayar; Mahdi Safari; Mousaahmadian
International journal of English language, literature and translation studies, 2 (2015) 1, pp. 114–124.
This study attempted to examine the concept of “voice” in Khayyam’s Rubaiyat compared with Fitzgerald’s English translation through investigating the extent of ideological changes Fitzgerald applied in his paraphrase and through analysis of the existing voice in every selected quatrain of Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. For this purpose, six Persian quatrains by Khayyam have been selected randomly and their equivalences have been traced in the first edition of the translation of Rubaiyat by Fitzgerald.
Comparison on Main Translated Versions of The Rubaiyat. Jian-wei Zhang.
Journal of Mianyang Normal University, [2012] 9.
Omar Khayyam’s The Rubaiyat has a lot of Chinese versions.Owing to the time of translation and the different views of translators,these versions present for readers different aspects.Guo Moruo’ version,Huang Gaoxin’ version are translated from Fitzgerald version.Zhang Hongnian’s version is literal translated from Persian.These three versions are representative in different versions of The Rubaiyat and there are obvious distinctions in terms of internal thoughts and external patterns among them.
Omar Khayyâm en breton. J.L. Backès.
Revue de littérature comparée 99 (1992) nr. 4 (Oct./Déc.), 419-437.
A la fin du volume de ses Poèmes publié en 1967, Roparz Hemon propose à son lecteur soixante-dix-sept quatrains réunis sous le titre général “Diwar Omar C’hayyam”, ce qui s’entend: “D’après Omar Khayyâm”. Honnêtement, le poète ajoute entre parenthèses: “hervez E. FitzGerald”, ce qui signifie: “selon FitzGerald”.
Loaves of bread and jugs of wine: three translations of Omar Khayyam. S. Jermyn.
Meta 34 (1989) 2 p. 242-252
Jermyn compares the translations of FitzGerald, Arberry (1952) and Ali-Shah/Graves
Recherches sur les Rubá’iyát de ‘Omar Hayyám. Par Arthur Christensen. Heidelberg, Carl Winters Universität, 1905.
Contents:
Préface
Première partie. Histoire et critique
Deuxième partie. Caractère national et vie littéraire
Troisième partie. L’oeuvre intitulée “Rubá’iyát de ‘Omar Hayyám”
Appendice I. Concordance des principales éditions et de quelques manuscrits des Rubá’iyát de ‘Omar Hayyám
Appendice II. Additions
Corrections
A comparative analysis of Edward Fitzgerald’s and Robert Graves’s translation of ‘The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’. Bahram Meghdadi. Columbia University, 1969.
Summary:
Robert Graves’s publication of his own translation of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat in November, 1967 triggered this study. Graves claims that Edward FitzGerald used spurious sources for his translation and that FitzGerald misinterpreted Khayyam’s basic philosophy.
Horace and Omar Khayyam. H.E. Mierow
In: The Classical Weekly, vol. 11 (1917), Oct. 1917-May 1918, p. 19-21