This volume contains an English rendering in quatrains of the first, second and fifth editions of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, together with notes indicating the minor variants found in the third…

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is considered one of the landmark classics of world literature and should be read by all.

One of the best-known, most often-quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald’s free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Explanation of Persian names…

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), dubbed…

Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower than…

Presents the free translation of the Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyam. Its colourful imagery appealed to the Victorian age’s fascination with the Orient…

Edward Fitzgerald, whom the world has already learned, in spite of his own efforts to remain wathin the shadow of anonymity, to look upon as one of the rarest poets…