The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
por Fitzgerald, Edward
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom
- Livreiro
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884 Elihu Vedder (1836-1923) was an American Symbolist painter. Many illustrators favor an Orientalist interpretation of the Rubáiyát despite the popularity of the quatrains being more a result of their universality than their exotic qualities. in the ten months from May 1883 to March 1884, Vedder completed a series of 54 drawings in pencil, ink, chalk, and watercolor to accompany the 1884 edition of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, concentrating on the mystical aspects of the poem, setting hand-lettered texts against illustrations that directly reference the swirling Arte Nouveau style. This Rubaiyat is considered one of the masterpieces of American 19th century book illustration. This copy is clean, tight and unmarked. Glazed cloth boards with elaborate gold decorations are bright and intact. Some fraying at top of spine. Closed split along front hinge. . 1st Popular Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Elihu Vedder. 13.5" x 16".
Sinopse
he Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Omar is neither a translation nor an independent poem; sceptical of divine providence and insistent on the pleasure of the passing moment, its 'Orientalism' offers FitzGerald a powerful and distinctive voice, in whose accents a whole Victorian generation comes to life. Although the poem's vision is bleak, it is conveyed in some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry - and some of the sharpest- edged. The poem sold no copies at all on its first appearance in 1859, yet when it was 'discovered' two years later its first admirers included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'.
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- Livreiro
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 500871
- Título
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Autor
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Ilustrador
- Elihu Vedder
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Edição
- 1st Popular Edition
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Data de publicação
- 1884
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Poetry;
- Size
- 13.5" x 16"
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