Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous "Omar Khayyam clubs" were formed and there was a "fin de si cle cult of the Rubaiyat".

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Blurb
Published: 03/25/2021
ISBN: 9781034674801
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d