The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Illustrated - Paperback

by Florence Lvndborg (Illustrator), Omar Khayyam (Author), Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám, a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts per line, hence the word rubáiyát, meaning "quatrains".