Title: The Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám
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.
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), Criticism and interpretation, Translations into English, Persian literature