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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Classic Literature

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Classic Literature

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1546794557
ISBN13: 9781546794554
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 18 1889
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Omar Khayyám (1048-1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. Later, a body of quatrains became attached to his name, although not all were his works. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883), an English country gentleman, published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry. After its discovery by D. G. Rossetti and others, the verse became extremely popular. Essentially a hedonist and a skeptic, Omar Khayyám, through FitzGerald, spoke with both an earthy and spiritual freedom that stirred a universal response. As a result, the Rubáiyát became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics.

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