FITZGERALD, Edward (trans.).

£675 · Offered by Peter Harrington

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald's translation was first published in 1859 and slowly gained recognition as a masterpiece of English literature. By the early 1900s, many of FitzGerald's phrases had entered the common stock of English quotations and allusions; a growing "cult of the Rubáiyát" found expression in "the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America" (Yohannan, p. 202).

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