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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

by Omar Khayyam

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Edward FitzGerald's 1859 English rendering turned a set of medieval Persian quatrains into one of the most quoted poems in the language. The verses, attributed to the astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam, meditate on the brevity of life, the pleasures of wine and companionship, and the folly of arguing with fate. FitzGerald reshaped rather than strictly translated, and the result reads as a single sustained reverie on mortality and doubt. Slow to sell at first, it became a Victorian sensation, inspiring devoted clubs and countless editions along with lasting debate over how much of Khayyam survives in it. Its images, the loaf of bread, the jug of wine, the moving finger that writes, have entered everyday speech.

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Omar Khayyam was a mathematician first. Born at Nishapur in Persia around 1048, he wrote a treatise solving cubic equations by intersecting conic sections, and worked on the calendar reform that produced the Jalali year, more accurate than the one Europe was using six centuries later.

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Pages
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