A Rubaiyat Miscellany: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Rubaiyat Miscellany, credited to Omar Khayyám, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Rubaiyat Miscellany by Omar Khayyám. (Translated by Richard le Gallienne; Edward FitzGerald; Arthur Guiterman; Ruel William Whitney.) Read in English by 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Rubaiyat Miscellany
• Author credits: Omar Khayyám
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:53:34

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• love
• Persia
• Sufi
• Rubaiyat
• quatrain
• wine
• omar

Track guide

1. 01 - Fitzgerald Translation: Preface by Arthur Guiterman — 11:03
2. 02 - Fitzgerald Translation: Rubaiyat, Fifth Edition — 25:16
3. 03 - Fitzgerald Translation: The Literal Omar — 28:54
4. 04 - Whitney Translation: Foreword by C.C.M. Jr. — 11:23
5. 05 - Whitney Translation: The Rubaiyat — 23:35
6. 06 - le Gallienne Translation: Fifty Quatrains — 13:23

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