Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous "Omar Khayyam clubs" were formed and there was a "fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat".FitzGerald's work has been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in English, Hindi and in many other languages. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Editions
8- date of publication: 2004ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044384-4
- date of publication: 1970
- ISBN-13: 978-0-486-26467-7
- date of publication: 1993ISBN-13: 978-1-85326-187-9
- date of publication: 2016ISBN-13: 978-1-62040-656-4
- date of publication: 2011-12-01ISBN-13: 978-1-78083-012-4
- date of publication: 1972ISBN-13: 978-0-14-003408-0
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