Ruba'iyát of Omar Khayyám
By: translated by Edward Fitzgerald ; edited with an introduction by Dick Davis.
Contributors: FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883.; Davis, Dick, 1945-
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Description: Omar Khayyam was a Persian poet and general genius who lived from 1048-1131. He wrote on Euclid, on the philosophy of mathematics and various aspects of geometry. He is also said to have helped correct errors in the Persian calendar. He wrote approximately a thousand quatrains of verse, which were famously translated much later in the 19th century by the British poet Edward FitzGerald.
Table of contents: title: Rubgasaiygasat of Omar Khayygasam, the astronomer-poet of Persia : translated into English verse [First edition]; title: Appendix 1. Text of the fifth edition; title: Appendix 2. Quatrains from the second edition : (not included in either the first or fifth editions); title: Appendix 3. Variants absent from the first and fifth editions.