Book Description

Excerpt from Omar and the Rabbi: Fitzgerald's Translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar, Khayyam, and Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra, Arranged in Dramatic Form For the benefit of readers who may not be entirely familiar with the two poems here combined, it may be well to state that each poem is used entire and without any alteration or transposition of parts. Whether Browning could have had Fitzgerald's translation in mind when writing Rabbi Ben Ezra is a matter of conjecture with regard to which there seems to be no more evidence than the way the two poems fit together. However that may be, the fitting together which has been here attempted reveals an amount of structure and dramatic power in both poems perhaps hitherto unsuspected. A public performance of the play was given by the Senior Class of Emerson College at Chickering Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, April 11, 1910. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.