Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)

$11.95

Publication Date: January 1st, 2014

Publisher:

Bibliotech Press

ISBN:

9781618951472

Pages:

100

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Description

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayy m (1048-1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubaiyat", (derived from the Arabic root word for 4), meaning "quatrains".