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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald)

By: Omar Khayyám

...Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام). The Rubáiyát (Arabic: رباعیات) is a collection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to the Persian mathematician an...

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The (Fitzgerald version)

By: Omar Khayyám

...The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) is the title that Edward Fitz-Gerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám ...

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Quatrain

By: Omar Khayyám

...volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012. This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It appeared in Sir William Jones's A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771). (I...

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, The (Whinfield Translation)

By: Omar Khayyám

...Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rubáiyát (quatrains), a four line rhyming stanza, which were popularized in an extensively reworke...

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The (Fitzgerald 5th edition)

By: Omar Khayyám

...The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a specific type of two-line stanza. Omar's Rubaiyat is a beautiful anthology of Islamic wisdom literature: originally penned in medieval Persia...

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)

By: Omar Khayyám ; Richard Le Gallienne

...Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1897 he published a collection of 211 quatrains, which was based on earlier English translations, in particular the prose version by Justin Huntly McCarthy. A expanded edition, containing fifty additional qua...

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