Beperking als uitdaging: kwatrijnen van Omar Khayyam door Karin van der Knoop

Beperking als uitdaging: kwatrijnen van Omar Khayyam door Karin van der Knoop. Hilbrand Adema.
Toonkunst nieuws, (1997), (juni)

Interview met Karin van der Knoop, hoofdvakstudente compositie aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam, over haar compositie “Kwatrijnen van Omar Khayyam”, voor sopraansolo, drie fluiten, basklarinet en percussie, op teksten vertaald door J.H. Leopold.

Eine Welt in Worten : die Quellen von J.H. Leopold

Eine Welt in Worten : die Quellen von J.H. Leopold. H.T.M. van Vliet.
Editio : internationales Jahrbuch für Editionswissenschaft 11 (1997), p. 116-128.

Buchstäblich alles konnte Leopold für seine Arbeit verwenden, und er hat es auch verwandt: an erster Stelle natürlich Texte, sowohl literarische als auch nichtliterarische, variierend vom Zeitungsausschnitt bis zum Roman, vom Gedicht bis zum Zeitschriftenartikel, vom Reisebericht bis zur philosophischen Abhandlung, ja, selbst bis hin zu Briefen, die er erhielt. Unterschiedliche Typen von Äußerungen anderer wurden in Leopolds sprachliches Universum aufgenommen und fanden wie von selbst ihren Platz in einem der vielen Dossiers mit Gedichten in statu nascendi.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Jeremy Parrott.
Book and Magazine Collector (1997) nr. 163 p. 40-52.

Edward FitzGerald’s famous translation of the poem has been issued in many collectable editions

Bibliografie

Bibliografie. J. Coumans.
Boekenwereld 13 (1997) nr. 3 (mrt.), p. 130-144

Annotated list of Dutch translations

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát: A Victorian Invention

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát: A Victorian Invention. Esmail Zare-Behtash. The Australian National University, 1997.

Summary:
This study was written in the belief that FitzGerald did not so much translate a poem as invent a persona based on the Persian astronomer and mathematician (but not poet) Omar Khayyám. This ‘invention’ opened two different lines of interpretation and scholarship, each forming its own idea of a ‘real’ Omar based on FitzGerald’s invention. One line sees Omar as a hedonist and nihilist; the other as a mystic or Sufi. My argument first is that the historical Omar was neither the former nor the latter; second, FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát is a ‘Victorian’ product even if the raw material of the poem belongs to the eleventh-century Persia. The Introduction tries to find a place for the Rubáiyát in the English nineteenth-century era.

Edward FitzGerald. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Edward FitzGerald. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition. Edited by Christopher Decker. Charlotteville ; London, University Press of Virginia, 1997. lxxii, 258 p. (Victorian Literature and Culture Series). ISBN: 0813916895.

Summary:
In this critical edition all extent states of FitzGerald’s versions of the translation are published for the first time, providing a full record of its complicated textual evoluation. Decker illuminated the complex process of revision by providing a textual appendix in which a comparative printing lays down each stratum of the composition.

Contents

Acknowledgements p. ix
Abbreviations p. xi
Introduction p. xiii
Textual note p. xlix
Emendations p. lxii
Select bibliography p. lxix
Critical text of FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
1859 p. 1
1868 p. 25
1872 p. 57
1879 p. 87
Appendix I. Comparative texts, with a table of the sequences of quatrains in the Rubáiyát p. 117
Appendix 2. FitzGerald’s Latin translation p. 233
Appendix 3. The pronunciation of Persian words in the Rubáiyát p. 238
Appendix 4. Select glossary p. 250
Index p. 255