The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
By: rendered into English quatrains by Edward FitzGerald. The five authorized versions.
Contributors: FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, tr.; Haight, Gordon Sherman, ed.
Publisher: Published for the Classics club by W. J. Black
Published: 1942
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Notes: "Edited with introduction and glossary by Gordon S. Haight."--5th prelim. leaf.
Table of contents: title: Edward FitzGerald and the Rubáiyát, by G. S. Haight.; title: First version, 1859.; title: Omar Khayyám the astronomer poet of Persia, by Edward FitzGerald.; title: Second version, 1808.; title: Facsimiles from the Bodleian manuscript of Omar Khayyám.; title: FitzGerald's Introduction to the third version.; title: Third version, 1872, fourth version, 1879, and fifth version, 1889.; title: Notes to the second version.; title: Vocabulary; title: Comparative tables of stanzas in the five versions.