The ruby cat of Waldo Japussy as dictated to Carl Japikse ; illustrations by Nancy Maxwell.
Atlanta : Enthea Press, 1999. 88 p. ISBN: 9780898048315.
104 quatrains.
Biegstraaten 71
The ruby cat of Waldo Japussy
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Edward FitzGerald”(1809-1883), British translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam …
Edward FitzGerald”(1809-1883), British translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (by far the most famous translation ever made from Persian verse into English), as well as Jāmī’s Salāmān o Absāl and ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭeq al-ṭayr. D. Davis.
Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, December 15 1999.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is by far the most famous translation ever made from Persian verse into English, and it had a considerable influence on the development of late Victorian and Edwardian British poetry as well as the awakening of a much wider interest, in English speaking countries and Europe, in Persian literature than had previously been the case
‘Let the Credit Go’: Coleridge, Edward FitzGerald, and Literary Custody
‘Let the Credit Go’: Coleridge, Edward FitzGerald, and Literary Custody. Erik Gray.
Coleridge Bulletin: The Journal of the Friends of Coleridge (1999) (Autumn), p. 47-52.
Edward FitzGerald seems to have been thinking of Coleridge while translating the Rubáiyát. In a letter of May, 1857, about a year after he had been introduced to the poem, FitzGerald gives the first evidence that he has been translating it into verse. Only a single quatrain is translated, and that not into English, but into Latin; FitzGerald writes, “I could not help running into such bad Latin,” which, he says, “is to be read as Monkish Latin.”
World outlook of Hakim Umar Khayyam
World outlook of Hakim Umar Khayyam. Ahmad Shahvari. Mumbay, Shahvary, 1999. 86, [3] pp.
Summary:
Purpose of this book is to provide a new window for thinking about Khayyam’s views regarding the principle questions about life, man, creation. Shahvary discusses a number of quatrains from various translations.
Al-Khayyám mathématicien
Al-Khayyám mathématicien. Rashed, R. et B. Vahabzadeh. Paris, Librairie Scientifique et technique A. Blanchard, 1999. x, 428 p. ISBN: 2853672107
Summary:
Personnage de légende, ‘Umar al-Khayyam (1048-1131) est aussi un mathématicien novateur et un éminent philosophe. Il fut le premier à concevoir la géométrie algébrique, développée par son successeur Sharaf al-Din al-Tùsi puis, six siècles plus tard, par Descartes et Fermat. Critique de la théorie des parallèles d’Euclide aussi bien que de sa théorie des proportions, il imprègne l’histoire de ces théories, et inspire les mathématiciens jusqu’à Wallis et Saccheri. Dans ce livre sont pour la première fois réunis tous les écrits mathématiques d’al-Khayyàm, scientifiquement établis et rigoureusement traduits ; ils sont précédés des commentaires historiques et mathématiques nécessaires à l’intelligence de leur auteur, et qui placeront son œuvre dans l’histoire des mathématiques.