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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
May 22, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1859 the poet Edward FitzGerald published a long poem based on the verses of the 11th-century Persian scholar Omar Khayyam. Not a single copy was sold in the first few months after the work's publication, but after it came to the notice of members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood it became enormously influential. Although only loosely based on the original, the Rubaiyat made Khayyam the best-known Eastern poet in the English-speaking world. FitzGerald's version is itself one of the most admired works of Victorian literature, praised and imitated by many later writers.
With:
Charles Melville
Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge
Daniel Karlin
Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol
Kirstie Blair
Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling
Producer: Thomas Morris.
With:
Charles Melville
Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge
Daniel Karlin
Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol
Kirstie Blair
Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling
Producer: Thomas Morris.
Released:
May 22, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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