"Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam" FITZGERALD, Edward

"Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam" FITZGERALD, EdwardFITZGERALD, Edward [189] pp. Hodder and Stoughton 8" x 6" w publisher's dappled slipcase box w illustrations by Edmund Dulac Full morocco leather bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London Rubiyt of Omar Khayym is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (10481131), dubbed "the Astronomer Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first,

FITZGERALD, Edward

[189] pp.

Hodder and Stoughton

8" x 6"

w/ publisher's dappled slipcase box

w/ illustrations by Edmund Dulac

Full-morocco leather bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 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 siècle cult of the Rubaiyat".