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<p><p>in The Eleventh Century, In Persia, There Lived A Mathematician Named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar Bin Ibrahim Al-khayyami&#151;or, Omar, Son Of Abraham, The Tent-maker. Omar Wrote Poetry, And While His Rhymes Received Little Attention In Their Day, They Were Rediscovered And Translated Into Beautiful English&#151;more Than Seven Centuries Later&#151;by A Gentleman And Scholar Named Edward Fitzgerald. It Was A Meeting Of Minds, A Great Collaboration Of The Past And The Present, And Fitzgerald's Rendition Of Those Passionate Verses Has Become One Of The Best Loved Poem Cycles In The English Language.<p>with Their Concern For The Here And Now, As Opposed To The Hereafter, Omar Khayyam's Quatrains Are As Romantic Today As They Were Hundreds Of Years Ago; They Are A Tribute To The Power Of One Moment's Pleasure Over A Lifetime Of Sorrow, Of Desire Over The Vicissitudes Of Time. <i>rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam</i>, Presented Here With Edward Fitzgerald's Original Preface, Is Truly A Classic, And It Will Stand Forever As One Of Our Finest Monuments To Love.</p><h3>booknews</h3><p>fitzgerald Compulsively Revised His Translation Of The Rub<'a>iy<'a>t, Resulting In Four Published Editions,

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Author

Omar Khayyam

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385001465

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.18 / 5 (121 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14