![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That is why the critical edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1997) presents all four texts of the collected quatrains published during FitzGerald's lifetime. FitzGerald did not render into English verse, once and forever, the quatrains (rubā'iyāt) he selected, but did so at least four times, for he first published one, then two, then three and finally four versions of a similar (though not identical) collection of Khayyam's poetry. FitzGerald's name appeared in the new, expanded and revised editions of 1868, 1872, and 1879, which did not cancel or supersede the previous ones: the fourth and final edition of 1879 was, in fact, an unabridged reprint of the four 1859–79 editions. The first edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) was a twenty-four-page booklet published by an antiquarian bookseller without the name of the translator. Omar Khayyam, the great Persian rationalist philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, was first introduced as a poet to the West by the Victorian writer Edward FitzGerald. ![]()
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