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.