Second Rubaiyat Miscellany
Author: first_name: Louisa Stuart
last_name: Costello
first_name: Edward Byles
last_name: Cowell
first_name: Nathan Haskell
last_name: Dole
first_name: Henry George
last_name: Keene
first_name: Rex
last_name: Löwenberg
first_name: Charles J.
last_name: Pickering
first_name: Frank
last_name: Siller
first_name: Whitley
last_name: Stokes
first_name: W. E. B.
last_name: Whittaker
Language: English

In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam with translations of some verses.
Interest in the poetry of Omar Khayyam received its first major boost in the English speaking world when Edward Fitzgerald published a translation of 75 quatrains in 1859.  Fitzgerald’s mentor was Professor Edward Byles Cowell, who, in the previous year, had published an essay entitled “Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of