Rubaiyat Rendered Into English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald

Download or read book Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse written by Omar Khayyam and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the name Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, also known as "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia." This book had a great impact on the literary developments in Europe. By the 1880s, it was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world. After the publication, numerous "Omar Khayyam clubs" were formed, and there was a "fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat."