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...ORIGINAL RUBAIYYAT OF OMAR KHAYAAM, translated by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah. 86 pages. Doubleday...
...succeed at smashing the "Fitz-Omar cult," it is Robert Graves. At 72, he is established as a leading British poet, an adroit translator and an iconoclastic critic and scholar. He does not read Persian, but worked from an annotated crib prepared for him by Persian Poet Omar Ali-Shah, who claims that the manuscript has been in his family for 800 years. Yet this new Rubaiyyat suffers from Graves's apparent inability to decide whether he was writing more as a translator or as a poet. He may well have failed as both...
...loaf of bread and thou" became "one mancel loaf, a haunch of mutton and a gourd of wine set for us two alone"), but also for making some scholarly blunders of his own. L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves's critics have not been permitted to examine Ali-Shah's manuscript. Thus the lay reader can only read Graves's Rubaiyyat as an English poem and decide whether...
...project is dearer to Iranian hearts than the $300 million Russian steel mill now under construction at Isfahan. Steel mills are status symbols to all developing countries, and Iran has been yearning for one for more than 75 years. The Shah himself broke ground for the plant last month, and the declared purpose of Kosygin's trip was to pay a visit to its site. Obviously, there was not a great deal to see yet, but the aborning mill was a convenient excuse for the Soviet Premier to negotiate in person for even bigger deals...
...performance, he appeared at a state banquet to declare that "the Soviet Union is prepared to help Iran for the quickest possible exploitation of its natural resources." He also persuaded the Iranians to quintuple their Soviet trade, making Russia their biggest customer and biggest supplier. Finally, he talked the Shah into taking Russia in as a full partner in the exploitation of vast copper and oilfields that lie in central Iran. Even for Kosygin, it was an unusually profitable trip...