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The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten

by Oliver Herford

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1904
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The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten is the 1904 parody by Oliver Herford (1860-1935), the American humorist-illustrator, recasting FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the voice of a Persian kitten. Herford follows the famous quatrains stanza by stanza, turning the wine, the rose, and the moving finger into saucers of milk, the hearth rug, and the perils of kittenhood, with his soft pen-and-ink drawings of the kitten throughout. The FitzGerald Rubáiyát was then at the height of its enormous vogue, endlessly quoted and endlessly parodied, and Herford's kitten version became the most popular of all the parodies, repeatedly reprinted. The book remains his best-remembered single work and a classic of American light verse.

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Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford brought light verse and illustration together in books that reward both reading aloud and looking closely. The Kitten’s Garden of Verses and The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten recast familiar literary forms around cats, while The Mythological Zoo turns classical creatures into comic subjects. The Peter Pan Alphabet similarly reshapes J. M.

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First published
1904
Reading time
About 20 minutes
Pages
28
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
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