Omar Resung
Author: first_name: Charles G.
last_name: Blanden
Language: English
Year: 1901

Most of the translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have been in verse. However, there have been three notable exceptions to this convention; the French translation by J. B. Nicolas (1867), the English version by Justin Huntly McCarthy (1889) and another English version by Frederick Rolfe (better known as Baron Corvo, the author of Hadrian VII), published in 1903.<br /><br />

Charles Blanden (1857 - 1933) belonged to the group known as the Chicago poets, the most famous of which was Carl S