The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : Paperback : Dover Publications Inc. : 9780486264677 : 048626467X : 02 Nov 2011 : Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when FitzGerald published a free adapation of this Persian poetry. As a result, The Rubaiyat became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics.
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