Although not as well known as it used to be, Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is still probably the most popular book of poetry ever published. It is certainly the most quoted. "I came ...
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a collection of Persian poetry translated into English in the 19th century by Edward FitzGerald. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Q My professor, referring to the imminent end of the semester, used the ...
In 1909, two London bookbinders were commissioned to create a book that would become one of the most bedazzling the world had beheld. Joobin Bekhrad reveals how it ended up at the bottom of the ...
THE LIFE OF EDWARD FITZGERALD —Alfred McKinley Terhune—Yale ($5). In London one day in 1861 Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his great friend, Poet Algernon Swinburne, rummaging through the penny book ...
No longer a gritty modernist, Rautavaara’s music is becoming ever more seductively romantic. This disc introduces four recent works (2012-15) from the pen of the Finnish composer. Rubáiyát, a song ...
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