Edward FitzGerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Omar Khayyam. Rubāʻīyāt.

Omar Khayyam.

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883--Criticism and interpretation.

FitzGerald, Edward.

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2004]

Summary:

- Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom

The fin de siècle cult of FitzGerald's "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam / John D. Yohannan

The Rubaʻiyat of Omar Khayyam / Iran B. Hassani Jewett

Fugitive articulation : an introduction to the Rubaʻiyat of Omar Khayyam / Daniel Schenker

The discovery of the Rubaʻiyat / Robert Bernard Martin

The apocalyptic vision of La vida es sueño : Calderʹon and Edward FitzGerald / Frederick A. de Armas

Young Eliot's rebellion / Vinnie-Marie d'Ambrosio

Larger hopes and the new hedonism : Tennyson and FitzGerald / Norman Page

Bernard Quaritch and "My Omar" : the struggle for FitzGerald's Rubaʻiyat / Arthur Freeman

Paradise enow / John Hollander

The tale of the inimitable Rubaiyat / Tracia Leacock-Seghatolislami

Forgetting FitzGerald's Rubaʻiyat / Erik Gray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791075834

OCLC:

51942459