Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám (Persian original and Whinfield translation)
Author: first_name: Omar
last_name: Khayyám
Language: Persian/Farsi
Year: 1883

Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rubáiyát (quatrains), a four line rhyming stanza, which were popularized in an extensively reworked collection in English by Edward Fitzgerald, the first edition of which appeared in 1859.<br><br>
However, Fitzgerald was neither the first nor the most scholarly of the translators of Omar Khayyam’s rubáiyát. As well as translating the poems of Hafez and Rumi, Edward Henr