My father used to wake us every morning by coming through the door and calling loudly "Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone which puts the stars to flight.'! He also brought a cup of tea for each of us. Lovely man.
I have been sitting quietly in the background listening and watching. I just wanted to thank you for your videos and tell you how much I enjoy them. Thank you for sharing the magic and power of words.
Thank you once again for transporting me on that early dawn 'Desert Caravan', and at the same time the involvement of introducing the Chess Board, and its complexities, then the reflections they ignite. God Bless Steve.
Absolutely love this! I’ve just stumbled across a copy of the Rubaiyat and wanted to glean some more insight into it! This is a wonderful account and your own poetry is beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏻
I have a large edition that was gifted to my great aunt in 1928.. I cant add the photos. but they are wonderful. I have wondered about this book for decades and hold it as a cherished prize.
It is quite uncanny the parallels running between us at the moment. My Aunt left me a box of books when she passed which for one reason or another has remained untouched for several years. So yesterday, inspired by your videos I thought I’d have a rummage and guess what I brought back to my desk to enjoy...yes her treasured copy of “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam” and today your video magically features that poem.
Althogh Fitzgerald has done an outstanding job in its translation, you can only understand the magic if you can read it in its original Farsi language. Just like the poems of Hafiz or Rumi.
That's partially true I read it in old Persian and Avestan. And when you combine the two and it has a completely different meaning i studied it in the Badrozzamam quarib museum
Thanks for sharing the Persian Poem and your thoughts on metaphors. Your quatrain was humbly written, sincere and honest as evidenced by your use of only a couple of modal verbs denoting possibility. Please share others as you see fit. Kind regards, SF.
"Beauty will save the world" Dostoyevsky Thank you Malcolm for spreading the timeless - ever ripe message of the Ruba'iya't - being like a Rainbow, it is a Celebration of Universal first Principles underpinning and overarching all and everything... from Suffolk - the home of 'Old Fitz' and in the Unity of Spirit. Charles Mugleston OKTC
So enjoy your videos. Have you read the conference of the birds by Attar or anything by Hafez? We are almost the same age. I wish I had your intelligence snd I live your humanity. Almost wish I had a pipe, love red wine and poetry, could go on.
There's so much I wish to say that the words won't come just so. Thus, I'll settle for conveying my deepest feeling in the most natural of terms: Thank you, thank you, thank you.🥲
I looked up this edition on Amazon because I was curious how much it's going for today. I couldn't find the 1955 Folio Society, but I found the Folio Society's Ninth Printing of it from 1991 and it's being sold for over 100 US dollars on Amazon and listed as "Collectible."
Some of the verses you quoted made me realise that the version I have isn't complete! It turns out it omits verses 69-74 of Fitzgerald's first edition, and they seem as good as any of the others. It does have the last verse, but what does "the spot where I made one" mean? where I made a guest? And are those guests star-scatter'd on the grass alive and enjoying life, or dead and buried? Anyway, thanks for making me discover those extra verses!
I think ke is remembering the guests when they were alive but, elegiacally as they are now dead and buried, and is remembering that he too has been a guest who will eventually go to his grave
Thank you, Malcolm; that was interesting and instructive (and enjoyable). I own a copy of your finished set, and I am glad you did carry on with the quatrains after that first one. Today, I discovered a copy of the Rubaiyat, illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan, and I have to say that the illustrations, one per quatrain, are every bit as enjoyable as the original poem. Have you seen them? (I am guessing Yes!)
Are you familiar with Wendy Cope's 'Strugnell' Rubaiyat? Here is the 11th ... Here with a Bag of Crisps beneath the Bough, A Can of Beer, a Radio - and Thou Beside me half asleep in Brockwell Park And Brockwell Park is Paradise enow.
"This quarantine has taken many things // But left you with the precious gift of time." Yes! I feel that...so much! Precious!
thanks
Thanks for explaining about the stone flung in the bowl to get the caravan going, It's that kind of explanation I have been looking for .
My father used to wake us every morning by coming through the door and calling loudly "Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone which puts the stars to flight.'! He also brought a cup of tea for each of us. Lovely man.
wonderful!
I have been sitting quietly in the background listening and watching. I just wanted to thank you for your videos and tell you how much I enjoy them. Thank you for sharing the magic and power of words.
You are so welcome
Thank you once again for transporting me on that early dawn 'Desert Caravan', and at the same time the involvement of introducing the Chess Board, and its complexities, then the reflections they ignite. God Bless Steve.
Glad you enjoyed it
I possess this work in the pocket book form. Truly an inspiration and gift to those who look and wonder.
Absolutely love this! I’ve just stumbled across a copy of the Rubaiyat and wanted to glean some more insight into it! This is a wonderful account and your own poetry is beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏻
Glad it was helpful!
I have a large edition that was gifted to my great aunt in 1928.. I cant add the photos. but they are wonderful. I have wondered about this book for decades and hold it as a cherished prize.
Beautiful description of your interaction with your mother & your awakening !
Thank you so much!
MsRhuby was here February 4, 2023, getting back to my European roots from Southern California.
It is quite uncanny the parallels running between us at the moment. My Aunt left me a box of books when she passed which for one reason or another has remained untouched for several years. So yesterday, inspired by your videos I thought I’d have a rummage and guess what I brought back to my desk to enjoy...yes her treasured copy of “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam” and today your video magically features that poem.
Amazing!
Malcolm Guite the force is strong with this one.
Such a lovely voice
Thank you for sharing 🙏
Always a pleasure to sit with you and leave filled with dreams old and new. Thank you
Always welcome
Newton Piper Malcolm is pure gold
lovely poetry--his and yours.
Althogh Fitzgerald has done an outstanding job in its translation, you can only understand the magic if you can read it in its original Farsi language. Just like the poems of Hafiz or Rumi.
That's partially true I read it in old Persian and Avestan. And when you combine the two and it has a completely different meaning i studied it in the Badrozzamam quarib museum
I love this poetry book. Thank you so much for this video :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I write in the same style as Omar Khayyam. I'm in the process of publishing my first book of poetry.
Absolutely brilliant well done!
Thank you for sharing your love of the Rubaiyat, it has made me retrieve from the bookshelf the old, illustrated copy that belonged to my father
Wonderful! Its always good to have encouraged someone to read an old poem again!
A seldom heard statement: "That's the dragon my mother gave me!"😂
Your library is beautiful
Thanks for sharing the Persian Poem and your thoughts on metaphors. Your quatrain was humbly written, sincere and honest as evidenced by your use of only a couple of modal verbs denoting possibility. Please share others as you see fit. Kind regards, SF.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So nice! I love your poem!
Bless you sir and thank you for sharing. As always I leave inspired...
You are very welcome
Thank you for the video. I went back and reread the poem.
Glad you liked it!
"Beauty will save the world" Dostoyevsky Thank you Malcolm for spreading the timeless - ever ripe message of the Ruba'iya't - being like a Rainbow, it is a Celebration of Universal first Principles underpinning and overarching all and everything... from Suffolk - the home of 'Old Fitz' and in the Unity of Spirit. Charles Mugleston OKTC
yes, I love the way Tennyson called him 'Old Fitz'
Very comforting, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you
I’d love to illustrate a children’s book with your writing.
I'd love to see and to hear you reading the full book, pleeeeease?
that's a thought! Maybe I'll give it a try
i really want this book but it’s hard to find a nice version.
So enjoy your videos. Have you read the conference of the birds by Attar or anything by Hafez? We are almost the same age. I wish I had your intelligence snd I live your humanity. Almost wish I had a pipe, love red wine and poetry, could go on.
I've read some Haze but not the Attar
There's so much I wish to say that the words won't come just so. Thus, I'll settle for conveying my deepest feeling in the most natural of terms: Thank you, thank you, thank you.🥲
thanks
I looked up this edition on Amazon because I was curious how much it's going for today. I couldn't find the 1955 Folio Society, but I found the Folio Society's Ninth Printing of it from 1991 and it's being sold for over 100 US dollars on Amazon and listed as "Collectible."
Ah well, I got a bargain then. I wouldn't have had a hundred dollars to spend on it!
Some of the verses you quoted made me realise that the version I have isn't complete! It turns out it omits verses 69-74 of Fitzgerald's first edition, and they seem as good as any of the others. It does have the last verse, but what does "the spot where I made one" mean? where I made a guest? And are those guests star-scatter'd on the grass alive and enjoying life, or dead and buried? Anyway, thanks for making me discover those extra verses!
I think ke is remembering the guests when they were alive but, elegiacally as they are now dead and buried, and is remembering that he too has been a guest who will eventually go to his grave
@@MalcolmGuitespell Thank you. And I've just picked up a copy of the 1955 Folio edition on eBay too!
Wonderful! Malcolm, did you ever lived in St. Cloud, Minnesota? I think I know you
never been there alas
Thank you, Malcolm; that was interesting and instructive (and enjoyable). I own a copy of your finished set, and I am glad you did carry on with the quatrains after that first one.
Today, I discovered a copy of the Rubaiyat, illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan, and I have to say that the illustrations, one per quatrain, are every bit as enjoyable as the original poem. Have you seen them? (I am guessing Yes!)
Many thanks! and 'yes'
Nice
Please tell the story of the dragon from your mom some time.
will do!
Are you familiar with Wendy Cope's 'Strugnell' Rubaiyat? Here is the 11th ...
Here with a Bag of Crisps beneath the Bough,
A Can of Beer, a Radio - and Thou
Beside me half asleep in Brockwell Park
And Brockwell Park is Paradise enow.