Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Khayyam’s life
* Concise introduction to Khayyam’s life and poetry
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Easily locate the quatrains you want to read
* Multiple translations of the quatrains by four different poets
* Includes FitzGerald’s 1st and 5th edition texts
* The original Persian 1342 text, edited by Sadegh Hedayat
* A special dual Persian-by-English text of the first 50 quatrains
* Features a bonus biography — discover Khayyam’s medieval world
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Life and Poetry of Omar Khayyam
Brief Introduction: Omar Khayyam
Edward FitzGerald Translation, 1st Edition Text (1859)
Edward FitzGerald Translation, 5th Edition Text (1889)
E. H. Whinfield Translation (1883)
Gelett Burgess Translation (1904)
Norton F. W. Hazeldine Translation (1908)
The Original Text
Contents of the Persian Text
The Dual Text
Dual Persian and English Text (Quatrains 1-50)
The Biography
Introduction: Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia (1859) by Edward FitzGerald
