The Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Author: William H. Martin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1786720140

Its lines and verses have become part of the western literary canon and his translation of this most famous of poems has been continuously in print in for almost a century and a half. But just who was Edward FitzGerald? Was he the eccentric recluse that most scholars would have us believe? Is there more to the man than just his famous translation? In The Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam William Martin and Sandra Martin go beyond the standard view. Drawing on their unique analysis of the more than 2,000 surviving letters of FitzGerald, together with evidence from his scrapbooks, commonplace books and materials from his personal library, they reveal a more convivial yet complex personality than we have been led to suppose."

Edward FitzGeralds Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Edward FitzGeralds Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Author: William H. Martin
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0857284282

The book presents the text of Edward FitzGerald’s three main versions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, together with non-technical commentary on the origins, role and influence of the poem, including the story of its publication. The commentary also addresses the many spin-offs the poem has generated in the fields of art and music, as well as its message and its worldwide influence during the 150 years since its first appearance.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 3

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 3
Author: Matthew Bevis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 104012867X

Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide. The life of the author of each text is described, and their relation to the writers they portray is sketched in.

The Poetry of Translation

The Poetry of Translation
Author: Matthew Reynolds
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199605718

A very wide-ranging book which launches a new theory of poetry translation and pursues it through readings of poem-translations from across the history of English literature. It engages with the key debates in translation studies, and offers new interpretations of major works such as Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis.

Primitiae

Primitiae
Author: University of Liverpool
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1912
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

The Symbolist Tradition in English Literature

The Symbolist Tradition in English Literature
Author: Lothar Hönnighausen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1988-08-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521320631

Lother Hönnighausen's book examines the literature and the visual arts of English symbolism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, Volume 2

The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, Volume 2
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1400854008

Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these four volumes represent the first attempt at a complete edition of the letters of Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883). Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.