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[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

David Stockhoff wrote:

>> I think that's a very Western, modernist view of poetry, to which
>> Khayaam probably did not subscribe.
>>
>
> But Khayaam didn't write the poem. Fitzgerald did.

Well, he translated it, which is kind of like writing a whole new
poem. (Traductore, traduttore.) But even FitzGerald is a bit early for
modernism, I believe.

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes