A Rubaiyat Miscellany
Omar Khayyám
Leído por Algy Pug
The translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has remained the most celebrated rendering in English of the Persian poet's work. While several other scholars produced their own translations of the Rubaiyat, yet others contented themselves by just paraphrasing the work of Fitzgerald. This recording features three reworkings of previously published translations. Arthur Guiterman and Ruel William Whitney based their renderings on the Fifth Edition of Fitzgerald's translation and Richard Le Gallienne, a distinguished poet in his own right, compiled his version from a variety of sources, in particular the prose translation by Justin Huntly McCarthy. The edition of the Le Galliene version used in this recording is a special selection made for an American friend by the poet from his larger collection of 261 quatrains, which has previously been recorded for LibriVox. (Summary by Algy Pug) (1 hr 53 min)
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| Fitzgerald Translation: Preface by Arthur Guiterman | 11:03 | Leído por Algy Pug |
| Fitzgerald Translation: Rubaiyat, Fifth Edition | 25:16 | Leído por Algy Pug |
| Fitzgerald Translation: The Literal Omar | 28:54 | Leído por Algy Pug |
| Whitney Translation: Foreword by C.C.M. Jr. | 11:23 | Leído por Algy Pug |
| Whitney Translation: The Rubaiyat | 23:35 | Leído por Algy Pug |
| le Gallienne Translation: Fifty Quatrains | 13:23 | Leído por Algy Pug |