Edward Fitzgerald's Rubâ'iyât Of Omar Khayyâm (Rubaiyat)
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Originally published | 1859 |
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Authors | Omar Khayyam |
Original language | Persian |
Genres | Poetry |
Translator | Edward Fitzgerald |
Publishers | Bernard Quaritch |
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ID | 2398490 |
About Edward Fitzgerald's Rubâ'iyât Of Omar Khayyâm (Rubaiyat)
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". FitzGerald's work at first was unsuccessful commercially.