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Wendy Cope's poem "Strugnell's Rubiyat" is a close parody of the FitzGerald translation, relocated to modern day Tulse Hill. One of the title pages of Principia Discordia (1965), a co-author of which went by the pen-name Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, features its own spin on the quatrain most quoted above: A jug of wine, A leg of lamb And thou ...
Edward FitzGerald or Fitzgerald [a] (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English poet and writer. His most famous poem is the first and best-known English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which has kept its reputation and popularity since the 1860s.
Khayyam is esteemed more as a scientist than a poet in his native Persia, but in Fitzgerald's rendering, he became one of the most quoted poets in English. Khayyam's line, "A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou", is known to many who could not say who wrote it, or where:
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī [1] [3] (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) (Persian: غیاث الدین ابوالفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشابورﻯ), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), [a] was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.
Yu Wuling (810–?) was a Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty. His birth name was Yu Ye; Wuling was his courtesy name. He attained a jinshi degree in the imperial examination, but gave up his position in order to wander around the country. His best-known poem is the jueju "Offering Wine", and Book 595 of the Quan Tangshi is devoted to his poetry.
' I pour ', sense "wine pourer"; pl.: oinochoai; Neo-Latin: oenochoë, pl.: oenochoae; English pl.: oenochoes or oinochoes), is a wine jug and a key form of ancient Greek pottery. Intermediate between a pithos (large storage vessel) or amphora (transport vessel), and individual cups or bowls, it held fluid for several persons temporarily until ...
Philip Freneau wrote a poem that was an aid to the early teetotalism movement. [10] [11] Freneau (an American) was captured in 1780 by the British while on a voyage in the West Indies during the American War for Independence. [11] After his release he wrote the poem called "The [Terra Cotta] Jug of Rum", criticizing alcoholic beverages. [11]
The Broken Jug, The Marquise of O, Michael Kohlhaas, Penthesilea, The Prince of Homburg Signature Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist ( German: [ˌhaɪ̯nʁɪç fɔn ˈklaɪ̯st] ⓘ ; 18 October 1777 – 21 November 1811) was a German poet , dramatist , novelist , short story writer and journalist .