The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the astronomer poet of Persia
By: rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald; the text of the fourth edition followed by that of the first, with notes showing the extent of his indebtedness to the Persian original, a biographical preface, Fitzgerald's sketch of the life of Omar, and a foreword by Talcott Williams.
Contributors: FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, tr.; Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928.
Publisher: H.T. Coates
Published: 1898
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Work titles: Rubaiyat.
Table of contents: title: Omar; title: fore-word and fore-plea, by Talcott Williams.; title: To E. Fitzgerald, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.; title: Biographical preface, by Michael Kearney.; title: A rose-tree from Omar's tomb, by Edmund Gosse.; title: Omar Khayyám's grave, by William Simpson.; title: Omar Khayyám [sonnet] by Graham R. Tomson.; title: [Omar Khayyám, poem by J. H. McCarthy]; title: Omar Khayyám, by Edward Fitzgerald.; title: Rubáiyat (4th ed., 1st ed.); title: Notes [by William Aldis Wright]; title: Notes by the editor.