Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyám with Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)

240 pages paperback 1859

135 editions

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

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