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Thread #132084   Message #2985202
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
12-Sep-10 - 03:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Books you read multiple times
Subject: RE: BS: Books you read multiple times
Several others beside myself have noted the Rubaiyat. Recently I Googled that poem, and found a couple of recent translations which are supposed to be more accurate representations of the original Persian. The problem is that I could correlate only a couple of quatrains with the classic Fitzgerald. Moreover, they did not flow as well as Fitz's, irrespective of accuracy.