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“Bois du vin …”. English, French and German translations in Persian polyglot editions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Bois du vin …”. English, French and German translations in Persian polyglot editions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Jos Coumans.
In: Persica, 2017-2018, Vol. 26, p. 103-163.

Summary

Many recent editions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published in Iran, have more than one translation, sometimes up to thirty or more. Usually they contain the English translation by Edward FitzGerald, accompanied by a text in Persian and translations in French, German, Spanish, Russian, Urdu and so on. However, it is seldom clear who these translators are, as their names are usually not mentioned. In this article I have tried to identify these quatrains: who was the translator and from which edition were the quatrains selected. Nineteen editions, published in Iran between 1955 and 2016 were examined. The analyses are restricted to translations in English, French and German.

General virtues of Umar Khayyam’s philosophical views

General virtues of Umar Khayyam’s philosophical views. Gulnoza Akramovna Yunusova.
In: International Scientific Journal of Theoretical and Applied Science, vol. 85 (2020), nr. 5, p. 328-332.

Summary:
The article describes the interpretation of the works of Umar Khayyam and their philosophical concepts. Khayyam attracted the attention of all as a person who did not follow any of the various categories of his time with his whole being, and who had an independent opinion and position. On the other hand, he seems to have been a more cautious man. After all, not everyone was able to live long in a very delicate and complex period and avoid severe conflicts.

With friends possessed – a life of Edward FitzGerald

With friends possessed – a life of Edward FitzGerald. Robert Bernard Martin. London, Faber and Faber, 1985. 313 p. ISBN: 0571134629.

Summary:

Biography of Edward FitzGerald, describing him as an attractive, brilliant, eccentric, irrepressibly humorous, loving and deeply vulnerable person.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword
I Family and Childhood
II Cambridge
III Thackeray, Tennyson, and Browne
IV Mirehouse and Boulge Cottage
V Browne’s Marriage
VI Cowell and Barton
VII Euphranor
VIII Death of FitzGerald’s Parents
IX FitzGerald’s Marriage
X The Discovery of the Rubáiyát
XI Posh
XII Letters and Readers
XIII Settling Accounts
XIV Boulge Churchyard
Acknowledgements
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

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

Omariana. A descriptive catalogue of the collection owned by Leone Fulmer Nash and Paul Tausig with contributions from other sources, including illustrated editions, academic editions, press copies, secondary literature, parodies and so on

Omariana. A descriptive catalogue of the collection owned by Leone Fulmer Nash and Paul Tausig with contributions from other sources, including illustrated editions, academic editions, press copies, secondary literature, parodies and so on. Marc-Edouard, Enay, Kent Nielsen. [Hamburg, Orient-Antiquariat, ca. 1990]

Khayyam Chapel – a place of solitude and contemplation

Khayyam Chapel – a place of solitude and contemplation. Grady W. Whitaker. Texas Tech University, Architecture Faculty of the College of Architecture, 1990.

Summary

In the context of translating one art form into another, this thesis will concentrate on the the use of literature as an inspiration to design a physical object. The literature selected for this thesis is the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, in which Khayyam discusses the relationship between man and God. Although the Rubaiyat is not a descriptive piece of literature, it is believed that it will provide the inspiration needed to create a great piece of architecture – a chapel. The chapel itself is to be an ecumenical structure and dedicated to Omar Khayyam’s thoughts contained in the Rubaiyat. The chapel is to be a place where a person can escape the everyday world in hope of gaining a better understanding of himself and his surroundings (be it physical or metaphysical). The goal of this chapel is to create a place of solitude and contemplation within a context that is juxtaposed.