Description: No publication or copyright date; OMAR KHAYYAM, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia; Avenel Books, New York; With Drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan; suede-boards with bold gilt lettering and decor on cover; many wonderful b/w illustrations; very good/like-new used condition. Description - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Farsi to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". FitzGerald's work at first was unsuccessful, but was popularised by Whitley Stokes from 1861 onward, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1872 FitzGerald had a third edition printed which increased interest in the work in America. By the 1880s, the book was extremely well known throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent of the formation of numerous "Omar Khayyam Clubs" and a "fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat". FitzGerald's work has been published in several hundred editions, and it has inspired similar translation efforts both in English and in many other languages.
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Binding: Hardcover, Suede
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Illustrator: Edmund J Sullivan
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Omar Khayyam
Publisher: Avenel Books
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Philosophy, Spirituality, Religion
