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Paperback Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál (Esprios Classics) Book

ISBN: 1034674803

ISBN13: 9781034674801

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál (Esprios Classics)

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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".

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