Questions tagged [omar-khayyam]
For questions about the works of Omar Khayyam, such as [the-rubaiyat], and his life as a philosopher and poet. Use with [persian-literature]
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English translation of a quatrain from the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam
Is there an English equivalent of this quatrain from the Russian version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam?
В этом мире глупцов, подлецов, торгашей
Уши, мудрый, заткни, рот надежно зашей,
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Was FitzGerald the first to collect the poems of the Rubaiyat together?
According to Wikipedia:
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, ...
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What's the "Tower of Darkness" in the Rubaiyat referring to?
Stanza 26: (from the English version by FitzGerald)
A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries
"Fools! Your reward is neither Here nor There!"
What's the "Tower of Darkness" referred to?
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Did the author base this element on the Rubaiyat?
In a non-fiction history book, Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years, a (temporarily) recurring element is "The Tower of Darkness".
Chapter 3 is even titled that, and it's fairly clearly ...
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