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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a collection of poems authored by Persian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyám. The poems in this title are written into quatrains, Rubaiyat being arabic for root of four, as in four line verses of which quatrains are made up of. One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. This is Edward FitzGerald's free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1122).
CONTENTS
- Biographical Preface To E. Fitzgerald (Epilogue by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
- Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia (by Edward Fitzgerald)
- Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr (5th Edition)
- Notes
- Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam (1st Edition)
- Note by the Editor (W. Aldis Wright)
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