Omar Khayyam and the ever-enchanting Rubaiyat, BUSINESS TIMES

Business Times (Malaysia);  April 19, 2002 ;   Helena Fernz;   718 words ......first, http://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html is very simple in presentation...stimulation here. After all, reading Khayyam's Rubaiyat or Robaiyyat (as it is sometimes referred...At this portal, the translation of the Rubaiyat into English is by Edward Fitzgerald...

The Rubaiyat of Edward FitzOmar. (Great Minds).

Free Inquiry;  December 22, 2002 ;   Sloan, Gary;   787 words ......swigs, we recited quatrains from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the bible for apostate...offered oblations to the translator of The Rubaiyat, Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883). FitzGerald...the Ouseley and the Calcutta), Omar's rubaiyat (quatrains) are arranged alphabetically...

Urdu Rubaiyat now in Polish

The Hindustan Times;  April 18, 2008 ;     335 words ......Faiz and Firaq, now has a new book on Rubaiyat (quatrains), both in Urdu and Polish...Polish literature that an original book of Rubaiyat along with its translation has appeared...benefited immensely," said Haider. "These Rubaiyat have the taste of the orient but have...

His own man

The Spectator;  November 24, 2007 ;   Marozzi, Justin;   787 words ......Khayyam can be summarised in two words: the Rubaiyat, a collection of his freespirited quatrains...from 1112 which produced some of the Rubaiyat's more memorable verses: Today I will...love of wine is never far away from the Rubaiyat, and with it a wonderfully defiant finger...

From Persia to Tyneside and the door of darkness

The Independent - London;  November 5, 1995 ;   IAN JACK;   787 words ......again, who knows! Our old friend, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, was doing its stuff...categories, could quote screeds of the Rubaiyat, and so could the man whose funeral I...was, he asked me to call him Joe. The Rubaiyat's appeal to men such as my father and...

Forgetting fitzGerald's rubaiyat.(Critical Essay)

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  September 22, 2001 ;   Gray, Erik;   787 words ...Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam constantly advises...1) Readers have not forgotten the Rubaiyat by the end of the nineteenth century...poem. (3) Yet, ironically, it is the Rubaiyat's treatment of forgetting that marks...

Dennis O'Donnell on eight ways to reach the age of 50

The Scotsman;  September 11, 2001 ;     493 words ......manu-script should close! Those lines from the Rubaiyat are fitting a bit tighter these days...do you think the familiarity with the Rubaiyat and suchlike came from? From my time...While there's still time. As your man the Rubaiyat says: "Come, fill the cup and in the...

Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.' (T.S. Eliot)

The Explicator;  September 22, 1994 ;   Krogstad, Christopher Alexander, James D.;   586 words ......little talk awhile of ME and THEE in his Rubaiyat: XXXII There was the Door to which I...later in the passage. The speaker in The Rubaiyat becomes an ironic foil for Prufrock...the fifteenth-century manuscript The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam portrays a self-absorbed...

FROM BAD TO VERSE

The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 4, 2005 ;   SANDI TOKSVIG;   631 words ......on to write that great poetic masterpiece, the Rubaiyat. The word 'rubaiyat' just means 'quatrain' and I am guessing that there...around at the time, because everyone calls it The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayym just in case anyone got confused...

Elektra Revisited; `Rubaiyat,' the Label's Quirky Turn on Its Past

The Washington Post;  October 3, 1990 ;   Mark Jenkins;   787 words ......prickly and the placid are honored on "Rubaiyat," the 38-track (plus one encore) salute...retrospective "Nuggets" for the company in 1972. "Rubaiyat," which will be celebrated with "cool...art-rock. This era is underrepresented on "Rubaiyat," as well it should be. These days, Elektra...

CORRECTION

The Boston Globe;  June 14, 1995 ;     49 words ......saying that begins, "The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on," to Edward FitzGerald. The saying is from the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"; Edward Fitzgerald translated the "Rubaiyat" into English. Omar Khayyam died early in the 12th century.

PLUNGED INTO ENGLISH, POET MIMI KHALVATI LEARNED NOT TO TAKE LANGUAGE FOR...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 27, 2006 ;     787 words ......says. "I thought, being Iranian, I should try some rubaiyat." Rubaiyat is the Arabic word for quatrains (literally, "fours...know what that poem is trying to be. It wants to be rubaiyat!' So I got out the old draft that was all wonky...

Letter: The key.(Letters)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  November 7, 2003 ;     104 words ......Makin,Ecclesiastes has a parallel in Muslim literature in The Rubaiyat of Oman Khayyam. At one point in Ecclesiastes, the teacher...into the earth?'' I suppose the corresponding passage in The Rubaiyat is: ``There was the door to which there was no key,There was...

Restaurateur known for never serving a bad meal.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA);  May 17, 2005 ;     540 words ......came true in 1963 when she opened The Rubaiyat restaurant in Brookline. Featuring Mideastern...was 92. My family still talks about The Rubaiyat, said Anna Paquette of Mt. Lebanon, a...he said, 'Nobody makes food like The Rubaiyat. The lamb shish kebab was a customer...

FAITHFUL WOMAN LEAVES A LEGACY OF WISDOM, LOVE.(TRIAD/STATE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  March 4, 2000 ;     590 words ......religion page. Min had recently reread the Rubaiyat, a 900-year-old selection of poetry from...material for an article? No, she said. The Rubaiyat is the story. Again I tried: You've done...unmoved by my pleas. The story was the Rubaiyat. Period. We failed to find common ground...