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Eliot possessed: T.S. Eliot and FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát

Eliot possessed: T.S. Eliot and FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát. Vinnie-Marie D’Ambrosio. New York: New York University Press, 1989. X, 244 p. ISBN: 0814718140.

Summary:
By his own account, T. S. Eliot’s love for poetry began when he first encountered the Rubáiyát at the age of fourteen, although he also claimed that he soon outgrew FitzGerald’s poem. D’Ambrosio’s monograph examines the complex ways in which both the poem and the figure of FitzGerald himself continued to haunt Eliot throughout his poetic career. (Victorian poetry, 2008)

Contents

Part I “Animula” (1929).
The possession
A bird’s-eye view
Eliot’s allegory
Omar and the boy
FitzGerald’s allegory
The “Low dream”
Part II. America.
Critical shifts: Norton, Aldrich, and more
Young Eliot’s rebellion
Part III. Crossings.
Parodying Omar at Harvard
Minuet a trois: Fitzgerald, Pound, and Eliot
Part IV. England.
The mystery in “Gerontion”
“Gerontion” and FitzGerald’s character
The dispossession.
Abbreviations
Notes
Index

Omar Chajjam und Max Stirner – Eine Brücke zwischen Orient und Okzident

Omar Chajjam und Max Stirner – Eine Brücke zwischen Orient und Okzident. H. Ibrahim Türkdogan. Leipzig, Max-Stirner-Archiv, 2001. 18 p. ISBN: 9783933287403. (Stirneriana, Nr. 19)

Contents

Summary:
Zum Verständniss des Rubai
Omar und Goethe
Omar und zwei seiner Kritiker: Chesterton und Pessoa
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
Ich hab’ Mein’ Sach’ auf nichts gestellt
Eine erzählerische Zeittafel
Einige Rubaijat des Omar Chajjam

Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Broomall, Chelsea House, 2004. (Bloom’s modern critical interpretations)
vii, 252 p. ISBN: 0791075834

Summary:
This edition brings together the most important 20th-century criticism on Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam through a number of previously published articles and chapters by well-known literary critics. The collection also features a short biography on Edward FitzGerald, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom.

Contents

Editor’s note

Introduction
Harold Bloom

The fin de siècle cult of FitzGerald’s “Rubaiyat” of Omar Khayyam
John D. Yohannan

The Rubaʻiyat of Omar Khayyam
Iran B. Hassani Jewett

Fugitive articulation : an introduction to the Rubaʻiyat of Omar Khayyam
Daniel Schenker

The discovery of the Rubaʻiyat
Robert Bernard Martin

The apocalyptic vision of La vida es sueño : Calderʹon and Edward FitzGerald
Frederick A. de Armas

Young Eliot’s rebellion
Vinnie-Marie d’Ambrosio

Larger hopes and the new hedonism : Tennyson and FitzGerald
Norman Page

Bernard Quaritch and “My Omar” : the struggle for FitzGerald’s Rubaʻiyat
Arthur Freeman

Paradise enow
John Hollander

The tale of the inimitable Rubaiyat
Tracia Leacock-Seghatolislami

Forgetting FitzGerald’s Rubaʻiyat
Erik Gray

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

De Perzische muze in de polder. De receptie van de Perzische poëzie in de Nederlandse literatuur

De Perzische muze in de polder. De receptie van de Perzische poëzie in de Nederlandse literatuur. Redactie Marco Goud & Asghar Seyed-Gohrab. Amsterdam, Rozenberg, 2006. 199 p. ISBN: 9051706960.

Summary:
Lectures presented at a conference on the influence of Persian poetry on Dutch literature, Leiden, 27 May, 2005.

Contents

J.T.P. de Bruijn: De Perzische muze in de polder
J.T.P. de Bruijn: Wie was ‘Hocéÿne-Azad?
Gabrielle van den Berg: De Perzische kwatrijnen van Jan Spierdijk
Marco Goud: Honger naar kwatrijnen. P.C. Boutens en de Perzische literatuur
Dick van Halsema: Bittere zekerheid. J.H. Leopold over Omar Khayyam
Wiel Kusters: “Gelukkige Oriëntalist, die dit alles verstaat.” Pierre Kemps gedicht ‘Oosters’ (1954) en zijn Perzisch suite (1959) voor E.F. Tijdens
Jos Biegstraaten: Omaritis in de polder
Tabel 1: Vertalingen naar la Roseraie du Savoir door J.H. Leopold, P.C. Boutens en L.Th. Lehmann
Tabel 2: P.C. Boutens’ Oud-Perzische kwatrijnen en La Roseraie du Savoir
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