Showing posts with label FITZGERALD Edward. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FITZGERALD Edward. Show all posts
Saturday, July 1, 2017

Edward FitzGerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: the Final Quatrain

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  I've cheated a bit here, for this is a repeat of a previous post.  However, since this is the last post I will make on the Rubaiyat (a...
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Friday, June 30, 2017

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Editiion, Quatrain CVII

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This is the second of two linked quatrains, the previous being Quatrain CVI, with a similar theme. Second Edition:  Quatrain CVII Bette...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain CVI

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This is the first of several linked quatrains which express the same theme: the pain of human existence. Second Edition:  Quatrain CVI ...
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Friday, June 2, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain CV

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Second Edition:  Quatrain CV Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse --if dimly, yet indeed reveal'd,      Toward ...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain XCIX

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Quatrain XCIX links back to the previous quatrain, especially the last two lines of that Quatrain:  And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf,...
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Saturday, April 8, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain XC

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This quatrain is linked to the previous quatrain  in which the narrator eavesdrops on the Potter's creations as they comment in the Pott...
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXXVI

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A confusing quatrain:  the syntax is not clear to me. SECOND EDITION:  QUATRAIN LXXXVI Nay, but for the terror of his wrathful Face, I...
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Sunday, February 12, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXXV

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This quatrain is linked to the previous quatrain in which the  Poet/Narrator points out that the Creator has put before us certain pleasures...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXXIV

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Would God punish us for tasting certain of the pleasures that He created?  Second Edition:  Quatrain LXXXIV What!  out of senseless Not...
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Sunday, December 4, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXX

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Quatrain  LXXX is linked closely to the previous quatrain, LXXIX. Second Edition:  Quatrain LXXIX With Earth's first Clay They did t...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXVII

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Quatrain LXXVII of the Second Edition refers back to the previous quatrain in the Second Edition: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXVI The Mov...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXII

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This quatrain continues the theme of the nature of the afterlife, or at least the Poet's thoughts on what it is.  The theme, therefore, ...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXI

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And yet another quatrain that FitzGerald introduced in the Second Edition. Second Edition: Quatrain LXXI I sent my Soul through the In...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXX

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This quatrain responds to the previous quatrain in which the human body was referred to as a "Clay suburb." Second Edition:  Q...
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Sunday, July 31, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXIX

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The following is another quatrain FitzGerald added to the Second Edition. Second Edition:  Quatrain LXIX Why, if the Soul can fling the...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXVIII

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This is another of the quatrains that Edward FitzGerald added to the Second Edition of his version of the Rubaiyat.  It's a familiar the...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXVII

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This is another of the quatrains Edward FitzGerald added to the Second Edition. SECOND EDITION:  QUATRAIN LXVII Strange, is it not?  th...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Editiion, Quatrain LXVI

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This post actually includes an error on my part.  When I went through the First Edition and included those quatrains from the Second Edition...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXV

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This quatrain was added in the Second Edition but had been removed by the time the Fifth Edition was published.  Frankly, I'm puzzled by...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXIV

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Another in a series of posts regarding quatrains that Edward FitzGerald added when he published the Second Edition of The Rubaiyat. Secon...
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