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FitzGerald, E.

“Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide,
And wash the Body whence the Life has died,
And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf,
By some not unfrequented Garden-side.”

NRC, 1-11-2008

FitzGerald, E.

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”

Kontakt editie Leerdam, 6-8-2008

Weiland, J.

Als water over zand en steen,
zo kwamen wij, geen weet waarom en geen
weet waarvandaan, en over de woestijn
als nevel weg, en niemand weet waarheen

Volkskrant, 22-3-2008

FitzGerald, E.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.

NRC, 5-12-2008

Mehdi Aminrazavi. The Wine of Wisdom

Mehdi Aminrazavi. The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
In: International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40 (2008), 1, p. 163–164.

Review of: Mehdi Aminrazavi, The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam (Oxford: Oneworld, 2005). Pp. 404. $34.95 cloth

Khayyam, Omar xi. Impact on literature and society in the West

Khayyam, Omar xi. Impact on literature and society in the West. Jos Biegstraaten
In: Encyclopaedia Iranica, 15-12-2008

Abstract
The first scholar outside Persia to study Omar Khayyam was the English orientalist, Thomas Hyde (1636-1703). In his Historia religionis veterum Persarum eorumque magorum (1700), he not only devoted some space to the life and works of Khayyam, but also translated one quatrain (robāʿi) into Latin. The first quatrain in English was published in 1816 by Henry George Keene (1781-1864) in the famous magazine Fundgruben des Orients/Mines d’Orient. Although the founder of the Fundgruben, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), translated a few of Khayyam’s poems into German in 1818, and Sir Gore Ouseley (1770-1844) into English in 1846, Khayyam was to remain relatively unknown for some time (Dole, I, pp. IX-XV)