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| The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three translations of the Rubaiyat | 
| Author: Omar Khayyam
Creators: Justin, Huntley Mccarthy, Richard Le Gallienne
Publisher: Bardic Press
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 547445
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 212
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0974566713
Dewey Decimal Number: 891
EAN: 9780974566719
ASIN: 0974566713
Publication Date: July 2, 2005
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Product Description
Though few translations have had as much impact as Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, anyone who wishes to truly appreciate Omar Khayyam needs to read more than one translation. This volume contains Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation with all its variations, Justin McCarthy's elegant and mystical literal translation and Richard Le Gallienne's sharp and poetic version. For the first time the reader can appreciate the range of Omar Khayyam and his interpreters in a single volume. Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. A book, a woman, and a flask of wine: The three make heaven for me; it may be thine Is some sour place of singing cold and bare But then, I never said thy heaven was mine.
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Excellent work by Richard Le Gallienne November 12, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I should start off by saying that I am not familiar with Omar Khayyam or his work. I should also state that Richard La Gallienne's translation is likely completely unlike the literal translation. His effort was only to produce a witty and stylish version reminiscent of Khayyam's original intent. From what I have read, it is excellent on its own. I do not generally go in for poetry, but found that I couldn't stop reading this work. Here are some especially interesting excerpts:
Look not above, there is no answer there;
Pray not, for no one listens to your prayer;
Near is as near to God as any Far,
And Here is just the same deceit as There.
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And do you think that unto such as you;
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew:
God gave the secret, and denied it me?--
Well, well, what matters it! Believe that, too.
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"Did God set grapes a-growing, do you think,
And at the same time make it sin to drink?
Give thanks to Him who foreordained it thus--
Surely He loves to hear the glasses clink!"
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