The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems by the Persian Omar Khayyám. The word rubaiyat combines the term 'rubai', meaning a two line stanza with two parts per line, and 'yat', meaning four. Khayyam produced over one thousand such stanzas. The English translations by Fitzgerald are the best known and consist of about one hundred quatrains in each of five editions which appeared over the course of thirty years between 1859 and 1889. The translations are by no means literal or exacting. FitzGerald admittedly took liberties while taking pains to capture and render the spirit of the original. Numerous phrases that have entered the cultural lexicon have their origins in the Rubaiyat, the most common cited being "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou". Lines and phrase from the poem have served as titles for many literary and dramatic works.
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| Read by: | Algy Pug |
| Length: | 2 hours and 21 minutes |
| Type: | Solo reading |
| Media: | MP3 CD |
| Package: | Paper sleeve |
| Item No.: | CD-1100 |
| List Price: | $2.99 |
| Artwork: | Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing |
| CD label art: | Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats |
| CD jewel case art: | Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card |
| DVD case art: | Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert |
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Artwork
Cover: " A Ruby kindles in the vine"from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1905, 1912) byAdelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming
Inset: Painting of Omar Khayyam's Tomb by William Simpson (1823—1899)
Inset: Miniature portrait of Edward FitzGerald by Eva Rivett-Carnac after a photograph of 1873; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Insert background image: Image extracted from page 061 of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, by English translation by Edward FitzGerald. Original held and digitised by the British Library.
The Recordings
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Table of Contents
| Track | Section | Length |
| 01 | 1 - First edition - 1859 | 17:53 |
| 02 | 2 - Second Edition - 1868 | 26:06 |
| 03 | 3 - Third edition - 1872 | 22:47 |
| 04 | 4 - Fourth edition - 1879 | 23:00 |
| 05 | 5 - Fifth Edition - 1889 | 23:02 |
| 06 | 6 - Introduction to the Third Edition - 1872 | 28:16 |
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