The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
โ Scribed by Burgess, Gelett
- Book ID
- 106746103
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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Edward FitzGerald gave the title *The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam* to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123). The word "Rubaiyat" means quatrains - verses of four lines. These works by Fitzgerald are the best known English transla
fiction; poetry, LCSH
A work of staggering poetic beauty that has inspired the likes of John Ruskin, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Bly, *The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam* was written in eleventh-century Persia and was largely unknown in the West until it was translated into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859. In FitzGerald's han