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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is an 1859 translation from Persian to English by Edward FitzGerald of a selection of quatrains, or rubaiyat, attributed to Omar Khayyam, dubbed the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward and came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England; a third edition in 1872 increased interest in the United States, and by the 1880s the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, spawning numerous Omar Khayyam clubs and a fin-de-siecle cult of the Rubaiyat. FitzGerald's translation has since been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in English, Hindi and many other languages.
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Composed, From (Year)1859 is Edward FitzGerald's English translation date, not a date for Omar Khayyam's own eleventh-century Persian quatrains; the authored-by edge to Omar Khayyam (file 02) carries the same distinction. Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wikipedia)
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is an 1859 translation from Persian to English by Edward FitzGerald of a selection of quatrains (rubaiyat) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131).
1. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wikipedia)
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...a selection of quatrains (rubaiyat) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131).
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