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Omar and his translator

Omar and his translator. W.F. Prideaux. Ely, Printed by E.H. Blakeney at his private press, Ely, Cambs., 1909. 16 p.

Sufism. Omar Khayyam and E. FitzGerald

Sufism. Omar Khayyam and E. FitzGerald. Bjerregaard, C.H.A. London, The Sufi Publishing Society, 1915. 48 p.

Contents:
Preface
Sufism: an appreciation
Interpretations, Sufism as a doctrine of life

Umar Khayyam and his age

Umar Khayyam and his age. Otto Rothfeld. Bombay, Taraporevala, 1922.

Summary:

Study of Omar Khayyám’s life and works, in correlation to the historical and spiritual development of Islam. With quatrains from Whinfield’s translation.

Contents:
Umar’s Life and Period
The Significance of Umar’s Ruba’iat

A bibliography of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám …

A bibliography of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám together with kindred matter in prose and verse pertaining thereto. Collected and arranged by Ambrose George Potter. London, Ingpen and Grant, 1929. xiii. 313 p.
Reprinted 1994 by Olms, Hildesheim.

The nectar of grace. ‘Omar Khayyám’s life and works

The nectar of grace. ‘Omar Khayyám’s life and works by Swámí Govinda Tírtha (V.M. Datar). With foreword by Sir Akbar. Allahabad, Kitabistan, 1941.
Includes the Persian text of the Ruba’iyat with an English translation. Reissued in 2010 by Oxford City Press.

Contents:

Bibliography
History and notices regarding ‘Omar Khayyam
‘Omar Khayyam’s scientific and philosophic works
Manuscripts and editons of ‘Omar Khayyam’s Quatrains
Works of other Persian authors.

The life of Edward FitzGerald translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

The life of Edward FitzGerald translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Alfred McKinley Terhune. New Haven, Yale University Press; London, G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947. xi, 373 p.

Contents

Parentage and early life
Bury St Edmunds
Cambridge
The genteel gipsy
Doubts and perplexities
Thackeray and Tennyson
Boulge Cottage
The Woodbridge wits
London during the ‘forties
The Cowells
“A very lazy fellow”
Early works
Spanish and Persian
Financial troubles
The wanderer
Marriage
The romance of “the rubáiyát”
The Persian poet and the English poem
Market hill
Sailing
Winter quarters
FitzGerald and Fletcher: herring merchants
More Persian and Spanish
The laird of Little Grange
Old friends and new
Greek translations and other works
Last years

Into an old room; a memoir of Edward FitzGerald

Into an old room; a memoir of Edward FitzGerald. Peter De Polnay. New York, Creative Age Press. [1949]. VIII, 344 p.

Contents:
Background and beginning
Bury, Cambridge & Thackeray
Boulge and Browne
Marriage
The Rubáiyát and the Letters
Posh and old age
Appendix
Bibliography