Omar Khayyam was born in Neishabur, Persia, in 1048. Khayyam was famous during his lifetime as an astronomer and mathematician, not as a poet. Khayyam's quatrains are not only just…

One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald’s translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam…

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…

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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…

Plays that include Eugene O'Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! and phrases such as The Moving Finger are inspired by The Rubaiyat. As did Shakespeare’s lines, so do Khayyam’s exquisite expressions, that are…

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