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<DIV>*Very* many years ago, I took out of a public library A. J. Arberry’s
“The Romance of the Rubáiyát” (1959) and copied out into two school exercise
books all the stanzas that appeared in the first edition (1859) with their
variations in the subsequent editions (1868, 1872), plus some of the additional
stanzas that appeared in later editions. It is all very carefully done –
and very confusing. But, then, the three editions of the poem are very
confusing when you try to compare them: stanzas dropped, stanzas added, stanzas
altered.</DIV>
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<DIV>(No idea how or where to do Xeroxing in those days, nor how to order or
find a probably out-of-print book. Just in case you’re wondering.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Anyway, I have always thought that every stanza equalled every other in
importance. So, I was very surprised when I ordered OUP’s World’s Classics
edn (ed. Daniel Karlin) of the Rubáiyát a few years ago and discovered only the
1859 version. I thought I would be getting all three versions. (By
the way, the paratext is huge, with the poem fighting back in larger type, two
stanzas to the page and those enclosed by a fancy border.) The later
versions appear piecemeal in “Variants”.</DIV>
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<DIV>Karlin acknowledges different opinions (such as “each edition of the work
is of equal authority”):</DIV>
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<DIV>“But I remain convinced that the first edition of the <EM>Rubáiyát</EM> is
a masterpiece and that subsequent editions did little to make it better and a
lot to make it worse. I hope that readers will take an interest in the
revisions, but they will do so always in relation to this primary text,
presented here not as one phase of a textual continuum, but as a single, and
beautiful, object of attention.” (p.lvi)</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>