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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Collected Translations

Omar Khayyám

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Publisher: LibriVox

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Summary

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 (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubáiyát" (derived from the Arabic root word for "four"), meaning "quatrains". (Introduction by Wikipedia) The three translations by women comprise this collection of recordings of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. (Note by Amy Gramour)
Duration: about 2 hours (01:49:56)
Publishing date: 2014-08-25; Copyright Year: 1904. Copyright Statment: —