Synopsis "Omar Khayyam Ruba’Iyyat:"
OMAR KHAYYAM: RUBA’IYYAT(Large Print & Large Format Edition)Translation & Introduction Paul SmithOmar Khayyam (died 1132) was one of the early masters of the Persian poetic form of the ruba’i… so much so that many in collections of these profound, philosophic, mystical, sometimes controversial poems were often attributed to him, although many were by other great Persian poets such as ‘Attar, Sa’di, Rumi, Mahsati and Hafiz. More famous in his homeland as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, the sometimes nihilistic and hedonistic and often Sufi philosophy in his ruba’is meant that his poems were never really popular in his homeland until after the interpretations of Edward FitzGerald, and the West fell in love with him. Introduction: The Life and Times of Omar Khayyam and his work as a Scientist & Philosopher and a history of the ruba’i and examples by its greatest exponents and a chapter on the various translations into English and other languages. Selected bibliography. The correct rhyme is here achieved & beauty & meaning of these fatalistic & intoxicated, loving & mystical, often satirical 186 four-line poems (twice as many as those ‘translated’ by Edward FitzGerald). Large Print (16pt) Large Format (7” x 10”) Edition. 319 pages. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages… including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, and many others, as well as poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children’s books and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa
