Interpretations: The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam

An Imaginative rendition of the thirteenth century poet, Omar Khayyan, much of the critical debate centers upon translation as an aesthetic genre which renews itself with the remote past. Written during a time of great personal loss for FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat is very much a part of the mid Victorian literary culture. By engaging such themes as memory and oblivion, and and the availability of consolation in a mechanized world, ,Fitz Gerald Aligns himself with his friend Alfred, Lord Tennyson. New Book