Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam P/B

Author(s): Omar Khayyam; Tony Briggs (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)

Poetry

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of whom tells the Story of all Three. This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble Successor of Mahmud the Great, and founded that Seljukian Dynasty which finally roused Europe into the Crusades. This Nizam ul Mulk, in his Wasiyat-or Testament-which he wrote and left as a Memorial for future Statesmen-relates the following, as quoted in the Calcutta Review, No. 59, from Mirkhond's History of the Assassins.


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The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published, brought up to date with a sumptuous new look.

an attractive new edition with a lengthy essay by Tony Briggs, who characterises the poem, memorably, as "the story of the apocalypse told to us by a kind uncle" DAILY MAIL a lovely new edition... Professor Briggs does us all a favour by putting before our red and weary eyes FitzGerald and this legacy from an older Iran. -- Libby Purves TIMES

Anthony Briggs, Emeritus Professor of Russian at Birmingham University, Senior Research Fellow at Bristol University, is a well-known writer and broadcaster on Russian cultural affairs and European poetry. His recent translation of WAR AND PEACE was critically acclaimed. Among his many publications are six editions in the Everyman poetry series.

General Fields

  • : 9781780228297
  • : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
  • : Phoenix
  • : 0.158757
  • : June 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Omar Khayyam; Tony Briggs (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 891/.5511
  • : 160