Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishapur by Edward Fitzgerald, Omar Khayyám

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishapur

Edward Fitzgerald, Omar Khayyám with Charles Stewart (Illustrator)

26 pages • first pub 1859 (editions) user-added

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In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubaiyat") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyam. If not a true translation--his Omar seems to have read Shakespeare and the King James Bible--the poem neverthel...

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