Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward Fitzgerald

by Robert D. Richardson Jr.

Written in Persian in the eleventh century, Omar Khayyam's quatrains, known as rubai , were written individually for an audience at court, and explored the meanings of life, love, and friendship. They were almost completely unknown in the West until Edward FitzGerald--himself a relatively obscure critic--translated and organized some one hundred of them into a unified whole that he called The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , which he published anonymously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620406535
• ISBN13: 9781620406533
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.2"