Il Rubaiyat di Omar Khayyam di Edmund Dulac, poeta persiano del XII secolo Omar Khayyám, è ben noto in Occidente, attraverso il lavoro del poeta e traduttore inglese Edward Fitzgerald. Pubblicato nel 1859, il "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" di Fitzgerald attirò poca attenzione fino al 1860, quando fu scoperto da altri artisti e personaggi letterari, come Dante Gabriel Rossetti che era un poeta, ed è ben noto come uno dei pittori della Fratellanza Pre-Rapellaelita. Fitzgerald era un poeta di talento; tuttavia, il suo "Rubáiyát" non è una traduzione seria e accademica del lavoro di Khayyám, e ripreda

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edmund Dulac The 12th century Persian poet Omar Khayyám, is well known in the West, through the work of the English poet and translator Edward Fitzgerald. Published in 1859, Fitzgerald's "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" attracted little attention until 1860, when it was discovered by other artists and literary figures, such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti who was a poet, and is well-known as one of the painters of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Fitzgerald was a talented poet; however, his "Rubáiyát" is not a serious and scholarly translation of Khayyám's work, and represents many of his own ideas and line of thought. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, writers and poets quite often used Oriental works for inspiration. The original verses from which Fitzgerald drew his inspiration, are a collection of isolated and separate "quatrains", which resemble the Japanese haiku in function, if not in form. The quatrain, "robái" is a very popular form in Persian poetry, and nearly every Persian poet has written some. This is the only form of poetry attributed to Khayyám, whose fame in his own time was through his influential works as a mathematician and astronomer. Indeed, he was only twenty-four when he wrote his most important work, a pioneering treatise on algebra. Fitzgerald's "Rubáiyát" describes what he believed to be the thoughts and feelings of Omar Khayyám, with seemingly Eastern tones and colours, but in a way that would be appealing to a Western audience. The "Rubáiyát's" tendency to rebel against the restricting Puritanism of the Victorian era, captured the imagination of many freethinkers of the time, yet it was only universally appreciated, after Fitzgerald's death. Today, Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám has been translated into many languages world-wide, and can be regarded as a masterpiece in its own right. Most importantly, Fitzgerald helped to create in the West, a real interest in Persian literature.

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