Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
By: rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald ; with illustrations by Edmund Dulac ; introduction by A.S. Byatt
Contributors: FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator; Dulac, Edmund, 1882-1953, illustrator; Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- introduction
Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Persian poetry; Translations into English
Work titles: Rubāʻīyāt
Description: Omar Khayyám was an eleventh-century Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer.  Renowned in his own time for his scientific achievements, his fame was reborn in the nineteenth century when Edward Fitzgerald published a translation of his rubáiyát (quatrains in a style popular among Persian intellectuals of his day). Fitzgerald's first translation was first published anonymously in 1859. (His revised editions were published in 1868, 1872, and 1879). FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem of all time.