A repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems attributed to the 12th ce

For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald's 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám' (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volum

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam by Edward Fitzgerald do it; the result was the Jalali era (so called from Jalal-ud-din, one of the king's names)--'a computation of

Omar Khayyam's magical poetry with its rich sensual glow and evocative oriental imagery, once again available in Edward Fitzgerald's famous translation. Oen of

The poems attributed to Omar Khayyam have a universal and timeless philosophical theme: life is a meaningful journey even if brief and uncertain. They inspire a