โ Scribed by Omar Khayyam
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The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam
Translated by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs
Philosopher, mathematician, poet and astronomer, Omar Khayyam is known and loved throughout the world for his celebrated Rubaโiyat.
Writing in the eleventh century, Khayyam was one of the most accomplished masters of the new and increasingly popular rubaโi, or two-line stanza, that had been adopted by poets to help them shake off the artifice of conventional court poetry and express their personal feelings with wit and clarity. Khayyam ranges in his stanzas through the most fundamental aspects of human experience and, since Edward Fitzgeraldโs Victorian translation, his verses have been among the most popular in the English language.
In this new translation the Persian scholar Peter Avery and the poet John Heath-Stubbs have recaptured the sceptical and unorthodox spirit of the Persian text by giving as literal an English version of the original verse as possible.
In the words of Jan Morris, they have โrestored to that masterpiece all the fun, dash and vivacityโ.
The cover shows โTwo Loversโ by Riza, from the Safavid period in the Isfahan style (Metropolitan Museum, New York)
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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
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