Word: rubdiydt
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...London, just after World War II, the older generation complained that the entire postal system was going to perdition. There were only three deliveries a day in these straitened times. Why, before the war, there had been five. One oldtimer recalled that Edward FitzGerald, the translator of The Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam, regularly wrote to London friends from his home near Lowestoft, 116 miles away, and counted on his letters being delivered before evening the same day. They had decent railroad service too in those days...
...instant success. Not only was her voice strong, but she perfected a technique of rephrasing passages-she once sang a single line 52 different ways-that drove audiences to rapture. Her repertoire ranged from love songs to political ballads to adaptations of Moslem poetry, including Omar Khayyam's Rubdiydt...
Since authorities on Persian are scarce, how are we to know what liberties Professor "Arberry has taken with the Rubdiydt quatrains? . . . The fact that FitzGerald took them out of mothballs is proof that they were not best-seller material as Omar wrote them. In all probability Omar's wisdom would never have sold without a little romantic icing...
...These Simple Things." Last week Professor Arberry finished a new translation, this time putting the quatrains into verse. When the Arberry Rubdiydt finally appears, connoisseurs will find the old Omar quite changed. For Quatrain No. 1 ("Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight / The Stars before him from the Field of Night. . ."), readers will find...
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