Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: FitzGerald's Rubáiyát: Popularity and Neglect
- Chapter 1 Edward FitzGerald, Omar Khayyám and the Tradition of Verse Translation into English
- Chapter 2 Much Ado about Nothing in the Rubáiyát
- Chapter 3 Common and Queer: Syntax and Sexuality in the Rubáiyát
- Chapter 4 A Victorian Poem: Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- Chapter 5 FitzGerald's Rubáiyát and Agnosticism
- Chapter 6 The Similar Lives and Different Destinies of Thomas Gray, Edward FitzGerald and A. E.Housman
- Chapter 7 The Second (1862 Pirate) Edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- Chapter 8 Edward Heron-Allen: A Polymath's Approach to FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- Chapter 9 ‘Under Omar's subtle spell’: American Reprint Publishers and the Omar Craze
- Chapter 10 The Imagined Elites of the Omar Khayyám Club
- Chapter 11 Le Gallienne's Paraphrase and the Limits of Translation
- Chapter 12 ‘Some for the Glories of the Sole’: The Rubáiyát and FitzGerald's Sceptical American Parodists
- Chapter 13 The Vogue of the English Rubáiyát and Dedicatory Poems in Honour of Khayyám and FitzGerald
- Chapter 14 The Illustration of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát and its Contribution to Enduring Popularity
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: FitzGerald's Rubáiyát: Popularity and Neglect
- Chapter 1 Edward FitzGerald, Omar Khayyám and the Tradition of Verse Translation into English
- Chapter 2 Much Ado about Nothing in the Rubáiyát
- Chapter 3 Common and Queer: Syntax and Sexuality in the Rubáiyát
- Chapter 4 A Victorian Poem: Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- Chapter 5 FitzGerald's Rubáiyát and Agnosticism
- Chapter 6 The Similar Lives and Different Destinies of Thomas Gray, Edward FitzGerald and A. E.Housman
- Chapter 7 The Second (1862 Pirate) Edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- Chapter 8 Edward Heron-Allen: A Polymath's Approach to FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- Chapter 9 ‘Under Omar's subtle spell’: American Reprint Publishers and the Omar Craze
- Chapter 10 The Imagined Elites of the Omar Khayyám Club
- Chapter 11 Le Gallienne's Paraphrase and the Limits of Translation
- Chapter 12 ‘Some for the Glories of the Sole’: The Rubáiyát and FitzGerald's Sceptical American Parodists
- Chapter 13 The Vogue of the English Rubáiyát and Dedicatory Poems in Honour of Khayyám and FitzGerald
- Chapter 14 The Illustration of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát and its Contribution to Enduring Popularity
- Bibliography
- Index
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- FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyámPopularity and Neglect, pp. v - viPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011