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Antique Book Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Leather #1115977

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Antique Book Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Leather #1115977
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - The Astronomer-Poet of Persia rendered into English Verse. London Macmillan and Co., Limited New York: the Macmillan Company. 1906
Book size 8?x5 ½?x½.? This is (as you probably already know) One of the Great Rarities of 19th Century Literature OMAR KHAYYÁM. One of the most celebrated works of English and World literature, the Rubáiyát is an original English poem based on the insightful quatrains (or "rubáiyáts") of Omar Khayyám, the great astronomer-poet of medieval Persia. Containing some of the most beautiful poetry ever written, the work is both a wistful reflection on life?s brevity and a celebration of life?s pleasures. The Rubáiyát was published anonymously and did not sell initially, so that its publisher, Quaritch, placed copies in a bargain bin and priced the book at one penny. The book was discovered in 1861 by Whitley Stokes, a young Celtic scholar, who gave copies to Sir Richard Burton and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Rossetti subsequently bought copies for the other great literary lights of Victorian England: Swinburne, Browning, William Morris, George Meredith, and Edward Burne-Jones. Eventually the book reached John Ruskin, who wrote to Fitzgerald: "I never did?till this day?read anything so glorious, to my mind as this poem." Gradually the poem found its audience?especially in America?and went through several revised editions in the course of Fitzgerald?s lifetime. The fame of the Rubáiyát has grown through the years, and it is now perhaps ...
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<tr><td>Condition:very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1906</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Antique Book Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Leather</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Northport Maine 04849</td></tr>
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