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    Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál: Together with a Life of Edward Fitzgerald and an Essay on Persian Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál: Together with a Life of Edward Fitzgerald and an Essay on Persian Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál: Together with a Life of Edward Fitzgerald and an Essay on Persian Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál: Together with a Life of Edward Fitzgerald and an Essay on Persian Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál" by Jami, Omar Khayyam, Ralph Waldo Emerson (translated by Edward FitzGerald). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 25, 2019
    ISBN4057664641106
    Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál: Together with a Life of Edward Fitzgerald and an Essay on Persian Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Jami

    Jami, currently a manager of a Fortune 100 company, has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho and has earned an Executive MBA from Pace University, New York with the highest distinction as the top of his class. He was a sta? writer for the campus newspaper Argonaut at the University of Idaho. Previously, Jami also has published a poem for Route 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey for which he received an award. He currently lives in Loveland, Ohio. He has two adorable daughters, Elma and Zarah. Jami’s interest resides in writing, travelling, and meeting people with new ideas and doing no box thinking.

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      Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál - Jami

      Omar Khayyam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jami

      Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál

      Together with a Life of Edward Fitzgerald and an Essay on Persian Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664641106

      Table of Contents

      TO E. FITZGERALD.

      LIFE OF EDWARD FITZGERALD.

      PREFACE TO RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM

      PREFACE TO Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

      RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM

      RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM.

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      KÚZA—NÁMA. LIX.

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      SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL

      SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL

      I. PROLOGUE.

      II.

      III.

      IV. THE STORY.

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      XXIX. EPILOGUE.

      XXX.

      PERSIAN POETRY AN ESSAY BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON

      PERSIAN POETRY BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON

      NISAMI.

      ENWERI. BODY AND SOUL.

      IBN JEMIN.

      The Charm of Womankind

      Tales from Shakespeare

      TO E. FITZGERALD.

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      Old Fitz, who from your suburb grange

      Where once I tarried for a while,

      Glance at the wheeling Orb of change

      And greet it with a kindly smile;

      Whom yet I see, as there you sit

      Beneath your sheltering garden tree,

      And watch your doves about you flit

      And plant on shoulder, hand and knee,

      Or on your head their rosy feet,

      As if they knew your diet spares

      Whatever moved in that full sheet

      Let down to Peter at his prayers;

      * * * * *

      But none can say

      That Lenten fare makes Lenten thought,

      Who reads your golden Eastern lay,

      Than which I know no version done

      In English more divinely well;

      A planet equal to the sun;

      Which cast it, that large infidel

      Your Omar: and your Omar drew

      Full-handed plaudits from our best

      In modern letters....

      Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

      LIFE OF EDWARD FITZGERALD.

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      Edward FitzGerald

      was born in the year 1809, at Bredfield House, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, being the third son of John Purcell, who, subsequently to his marriage with a Miss FitzGerald, assumed the name and arms proper to his wife’s family.

      St. Germain and Paris were in turn the home of his earlier years, but in 1821, he was sent to the Grammar School at Bury St. Edmunds. During his stay in that ancient foundation he was the fellow pupil of James Spedding and J. M. Kemble. From there he went in 1826 to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he made the acquaintance of W. M. Thackeray and others of only less note. His school and college friendships were destined to prove lasting, as were, also, all those he was yet to form.

      One of FitzGerald’s chief characteristics was what might almost be called a genius for friendship. He did not, indeed, wear his heart upon his sleeve, but ties once formed were never unloosed by any failure in charitable and tender affection on his part. Never, throughout a lengthy life, did irritability and erratic petulance (displayed ’tis true, at times by the translator of that large infidel), darken the eyes of those he honoured with his friendship to the simple and whole-hearted genuineness of the man.

      From Oxford, FitzGerald retired to the ‘suburb grange’ at Woodbridge, referred to by Tennyson. Here, narrowing his bodily wants to within the limits of a Pythagorean fare, he led a life of a truly simple type surrounded by books and roses, and, as ever, by a few firm friends. Annual visits to London in the months of Spring kept alive the alliances of earlier days, and secured for him yet other intimates, notably the Tennyson brothers.

      Amongst the languages, Spanish seems to have been his earlier love. His translation of Calderon, due to obedience to the guiding impulse of Professor Cowell, showed him to the world as a master of the rarest of arts, that of conveying to an English audience the lights and shades of a poem first fashioned in a foreign tongue.

      At the bidding of the same mentor, he, later, turned his attention to Persian, the first fruits of his toil being an anonymous version, in Miltonic verse, of the ‘Salámán and Absál’ of Jámi. Soon after, the treasure-house of the Bodleian library yielded up to him the pearl of his literary endeavour, the verses of Omar Khayyám, a pearl whose dazzling charm previously had been revealed to but few, and that through the medium of a version published in Paris by Monsieur Nicolas.

      FitzGerald’s hasty and ill-advised union with Lucy, daughter of Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet and friend of Lamb, was but short-lived, and demands no comment. They agreed to part.

      In later life, most summers found the poet on board his yacht The Scandal (so-called as being the staple product of the neighbourhood) in company with ‘Posh’ as he dubbed Fletcher, the fisherman of Aldeburgh, whose correspondence with FitzGerald has lately been given to the world.

      To the end he loved the sea, his books, his roses and his friends, and that end came to him, when on a visit with his friend Crabbe, with all the kindliness of sudden death, on the 14th June, 1883.

      Besides the works already mentioned, FitzGerald was the author of Euphranor [1851], a Platonic Dialogue on Youth; Polonius: a Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances [1852]; and translations of the Agamemnon of Æschylus [1865]; and the Œdipus Tyrannus and Œdipus Coloneus of Sophocles. Of these translations the Agamemnon probably ranks next to the Rubáiyát in merit. To the six dramas of Calderon, issued in 1853, there were added two more in 1865. Of these plays, Vida es Sueno and El Magico Prodigioso possess especial merit.

      His Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was first issued anonymously on January 15th, 1859, but it caused no great stir, and, half-forgotten, was reintroduced to the notice of the literary world in the following year by Rossetti, and, in this connection,

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