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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, written by a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam (1048 1131). A rubai is a two-line stanza with two parts per line, hence the word rubaiyat meaning quatrains. The world's best-known translations are made by Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883). 1st edition 1859 (75 quatrains) 2nd edition 1868 (110 quatrains) 3rd edition 1872 (101 quatrains) 4th edition 1879 (101 quatrains) 5th edition 1889 (101 quatrains) As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential.
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