‘Unknown’ parodies

The Parodies database page now shows a total of 240 parodies, mainly documented by (and taken from) the bibliography of the rubáiyát by A.G. Potter (1929), Jos Biegstraaten’s  study ‘Omar with a smile’ (2004), Michelle Kaiserlian’s thesis Infinite Transformation (2010), Roger Paas’ catalog Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Related Materials (2023).

The bulletin.Vol. 58 No. 2998 (28 Jul 1937)

I recently discovered more than twenty parodies in online resources as HathiTrust Digital Library and Trove, a collaborative effort of organisations, communities and individuals in cooperation with the National Library of Australia. The number of quatrains varies from 1 to 27, published between 1902 and 1937, and they do not appear in the above mentioned sources.

In Trove I found a number of parodies in The Bulletin, whereas in the Hathi Trust Digital Library ten parodies appeared in Yale record, most of them dealing with various aspects of college life.

TitleParodistYear
The Boarding-House Rubaiyat
The Signaller’s Rubaiyat
Rubaiyat of Omar Khandu
Rubaiyat of a Staff-Cadet,
The Rubaiyat of Omar Capstan
The Rubaiyat of a Googly Bowler
By George!
Christmas Rubaiyat of Mary Ann
Rubaiyat of the Rounds
The Rubaiyat of BillJim
Rubaiyat of an Average Bloke
Rubaiyat of the Flicker Graph
The Drunk’s Rubáiyát
The Rubaiyat of Chimmie Fadden
The Rubaiyat of an Undergrad
The Rubáiyát of Omar Freshmán
The Rubaiyat of Over Khutter
The Rubaiyat of Twenty-Second
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Bryan
Rubaiyat: 1924
Omar Encore
Omar, Dry

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