Graves and Omar. Anthony Burgess.
Encounter (1968) (Jan.), pp. 77–80
Comments on the Graves-Ali Shah translation of the Rubáiyát.
Archives
The Omar Khayyam Puzzle
The Omar Khayyam Puzzle. L.P. Elwell-Sutton.
Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 55 (1968) 2, pp. 167–179
A recent publication has stimulated interest once again in the Persian poet Omar Khayyam-though admittedly to the English speaking world he is already by far the best-known, and for many the only, figure in Persian literature. Yet in fact he is a rather shadowy, insubstantial person, largely ignored in his own land of Iran, and about whom surprisingly little is recorded in history. Much of what is related about him is purely legendary: for instance, the well-known story of his schooldays friendship with the vizier Nizam al-Mulk and Hasan Sabbah, founder of the sect of the Assassins-impossible on chronological grounds alone. Other legends have been ad added through the centuries, particularly by some of the Sufi sects in Iran and Afghanistan.
Omar Khayyâm
Omar Khayyâm. Jan Rypka.
In: History of Iranian literature. Rypka, Jan; Jahn, Karl (eds.). Dordrecht, Reidl, 1968. pp. 189–193.
General article about Khayyám, the known facts of his life and the works and manuscripts ascribed to him.
Edward FitzGerald
Edward FitzGerald. Michael Timko
In: The Victorian Poets. A Guide to Research. Second edition. Ed. Frederic E. Faverty. Cambrdige, Harvard University Press, 1968. p. 137-148
FitzGerald’s Rubaíyat as a poem
FitzGerald’s Rubaíyat as a poem. William Cadbury.
ELH 34 (1967) 3, p. 541–563
Cadbury argues that the Rubáiyát is not lyric but “anti-lyric,” since its coherence depends upon our imagining an implied speaker.
The earliest collections of O. Khayyam
The earliest collections of O. Khayyam. V. Minorsky.
In: Yádníme-ye Jan Rypka 1967. Collection of articles on Persian and Tajik literature. Prague, Academia; The Hague, Paris, Mouton & Co., 1967. pp. 107-118.
When in 1949—52 the three anthologies of Omar Khayyam dated 604/1208, 613/1216 and 658/1259 appeared in quick succession in the West it was quite natural to hail them as our guides for establishing the much discussed poetical heritage of Khayyam.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam. Evelyn Kennedy.
The Mathematics Teacher 59 (1966) 2, p. 140-142
Besides being hailed as a poet, Omar Khayyam, during his time, was unequalled in scientific knowledge and achievement in Persia. Many called him King of the Wise.