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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Rendered Into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald (Classic Reprint)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered Into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald - Classic Reprint Author:Omar Khayyam Excerpt from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Rendered Into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald — Confiuing ourselves, however, to the imme diate subject in hand, the preparation Of this seventh Old World edition of fitzgerald's Omar naturally seems to demand a few remarks, if only from the fact that it di ers in several important particulars from our pr... more »eceding reprints of the work. Some forty distinct editions now before the American public are a fairly good indication that even the man in the street has come to hold an Opinion concerning an anonymous translation which forty years ago fell dead from the press. And this impression we may well believe is destined to become - ii indeed it has not already become one of the permanent intellectual forces in the race.
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