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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam H/C by Omar Khayyam
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman Poetry
Edward FitzGerald's much-loved, often-quoted, best-selling 1859 translation of the Rubaiyat (650 editions in 150 years), with Attar's charming narrative poem, Bird Parliament. Extensive new introduction with notes and chronology.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam P/B by Omar Khayyam; Tony Briggs (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of wh ...Show more
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his "Ruba'iyat". The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and doubts with wit and clarity, and Khayyam became one ...Show more
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam in Scots by Rab Wilson (Translator); Omar Khayyam
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Category: Poetry
Perhaps this is not so much a translation as a rendering in Scots. Rab Wilson's quatrains tackle the same themes as the original Ruba'iya't but with a Scottish take, not only in language but also in tone and reference. It shows that the fundamental problems of everyday existence have not really changed ...Show more
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