Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition by Fitzgerald, Edward

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m, perhaps the most frequently read...
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Author: Edward Fitzgerald
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition by Fitzgerald, Edward

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

¥9,725

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

¥9,725
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m, perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem and certainly one of the most popular poems in the English language, poses formidable challenges to an editor. FitzGerald compulsively revised his work, alternately swayed by friends' advice, importuned by his publisher's commercial interests, and encouraged by public acclaim. In consequence, the editor is faced with four published editions as well as manuscript and proof versions of the poem. Christopher Decker's critical edition of the Rub iy t is the first to publish all extant states of the poem and to unearth a full record of its complicated textual evolution.

Decker supplies a rich interpretive context for the Rub iy t that reveals how its composition was so often a collaborative enterprise. His view of poetic creativity comprehends recent theories of the sociology of texts and challenges the common assumption that the desired product of a critical edition is a single unified text of a literary work. He illuminates the complex process of revision by providing a textual appendix in which a comparative printing lays down each stratum of FitzGerald's composition. Biographical and textual introductions, making imaginative use of FitzGerald's correspondence, trace the history of the poem and pay special attention to FitzGerald's motives for revising, for creating a variously beautiful work in verse.

This definitive edition of the Rub iy t will be of special interest to scholars and students of Victorian poetry, publishing history, verse translation, literary imitation, and revision. And readers for whom the poem is an old acquaintance will here find fresh ways to appreciate its strengths and finesse.



Author: Edward Fitzgerald
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 05/20/2008
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.93h x 6.09w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780813927251


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 291

About the Author

Christopher Decker is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has also published articles on allusion, literary influence, the history of reading, and appropriations of Shakespeare in Victorian poetry and culture.


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