The Romance of the Rubáiyát: Edward FitzGerald’s First Edition. A.J. Arberry. London, Allen & Unwin, 1959. 244 p. Reissued in 2016.
Summary:
In this scholarly centennial edition, Arberry makes use of FitzGerald’s own notes, letters, and Latin version of the quatrains to show how the English poem emerged out of the Persian sources.
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