Item #2304780 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1914. Hanscom, Adelaide. Small Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2304780

No jacket. General wear.

Unpaginated. As translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With illustrations by Adelaide Hanscom. "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1123), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubaiyat", (derived from the Arabic root word for 4), meaning "quatrains"." -- Wikipedia

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