The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation of the Persian Sufi (Aziloth Books) by Omar Khayyám

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation of the Persian Sufi (Aziloth Books)

Omar Khayyám with Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)

90 pages • first pub 1859 (editions)

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In July 1856, Professor Edward Cowell sent his friend Edward Fitzgerald a Persian-language copy of poems by Omar Khayyam, the 12th century Persian poet, astronomer, and mathematician. Fitzgerald strove for three years to turn the 'essence' of thes...

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