The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published, brought up to date with a sumptuous new look.
Edward FitzGerald's much-loved, often-quoted, bestselling 1859 translation of the RUBAIYAT, with Attar's charming narrative poem, BIRD PARLIAMENT. Also featuring an extensive new introduction with notes and chronology.
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that put the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
| ISBN: | 9781780228297 |
| Publication date: | 12th June 2014 |
| Author: | Omar Khayyam, Farid alDin Attar |
| Publisher: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | The Great Poets |
| Genres: |
Poetry |