In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyát") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyám. If not a true translation--his Omar seems to have read Shakespeare and the King James Bible--the poem nevertheless conveyed some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry, and some of the sharpest-edged. By the end of the cent...
In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyát") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyám. If not a true translation--his Omar seems to have read Shakespeare and the King James Bible--the poem nevertheless conveyed some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry, and some of the sharpest-edged. By the end of the century, it was one of the best-known poems in the English language, admired by Swinburne and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition focuses on the poem as a work of Victorian literary art, doing justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on "human death and fate." Karlin provides a fascinating critical introduction which documents the poem's treatment of its Persian sources, along with its multiple affiliations with English and Classical literature and to the Bible. A selection of contemporary reviews offers an insight into the poem's early reception, including the first attack on its status as a translation.
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奥马尔·海亚姆 作者
后浪
北京联合出版公司2014版
solomony
吉林出版集团2009版
徐强
NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company1997版
0 有用 scherzo 2016-03-10 08:44:36
Seidel the day
0 有用 小泽圈圈 2021-11-04 07:09:19
东学西渐。菲氏的翻译虽工整，但不一定符合原意，还是当维多利亚文学欣赏吧。
0 有用 milandroid 2024-06-02 18:20:54 卢森堡
Common area不知谁留下一本盗版; 据说伊朗没有版权?
0 有用 AilurusFulgens 2025-02-18 09:25:02 北京
读的第一本波斯诗歌