The Rubaiyat is a long translated poem by the legendary eleventh-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam. The title of the poem means "the quatrains in Arabic and Persian. The exotic nature of the poem along with its beautiful descriptions and spiritual aspirations captivated Victorian readers when it was first published in English and intensified the common fascination with everything oriental. The poem is believed to have had a great influence on British poets such as Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats as well as on poets from other Western traditions. Indeed, Western poets of the period were greatly concerned about the excessive growth of industrialization and the spread of materialistic and positivistic thought, particularly with the publication of Charles Darwins theories about evolution, natural selection and the survival of the fittest. The poem, hence, came to revive interest in romanticism and sensuality and mix them with a deep sense of oriental spirituality that could counterbalance the prevailing artificiality.
Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when FitzGerald published a free adapation of this Persian poetry. As a result, The Rubaiyat became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics.
Desde la primera aparición en Occidente de Las Rubaiyyat en 1859, estas cuartetas, escritas entre los siglos XI y XII, han conocido un éxito y una difusion poco habituales para las obras de tal naturaleza. Esto se debe a que dichos poemas dejan un gran impacto en el lector por el contenido que en apariencia muestra la dualidad de lo sagrado-profano desde unas posiciones de escepticismo, rebeldia y agnosticismo. Lo que motivo que muchos eruditos hayan identificado a Khayyam como un nihilista sarcastico embargado por la indiferenncia y el pesimismo. Otros, sin embargo, han advertido en Las Rubaiyyat el delicado perfume del sufismo, y, desde esta perspectiva, su lectura adquiere una dimension diferente y reveladora. Sea como fuere, aqui queda para el lector esta joya de la literatura universal tomada de la version francesa de Franz Toussaint en atencion a sus valores de claridad, sencillez y elegancia.
Rubaiyat es una colección de poemas filosóficos, místicos y espirituales que son atribuidos a Omar Khayyam, poeta, matemático y astrónomo persa del siglo XI. Los maravillosos versos de Omar Khayyan, escritos en el siglo XI, no solo pueden cambiar el pensamiento y los sentimientos de los buenos lectores, sino que tienen la fuerza y razones suficientes para modificar tambien sus planteamientos vitales. Lean y disfruten con ellos...
One of the greatest works of poetry in history, this lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet on subjects such as life, death, love, God and destiny.
