Omar Khayyám

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Omar Khayyám - Third Rubaiyat Miscellany

In addition to Edward Fitzgerald, many authors have produced versions of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This collection features the work of some less well known English translators. In an article in The North...

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Omar Khayyám - Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam

In 1867 Jean Baptiste Nicolas (1814-1875), scholar and career diplomat, published the first major French translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This version is in prose and the collection contains 464 verses....

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Omar Khayyám - Rubaiyat Miscellany

The translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has remained the most celebrated rendering in English of the Persian poet's work. While several other scholars produced their own translations of...

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Omar Khayyám - Strophes of Omar Khayyám

One of the earliest versions of Omar Khayyám's quatrains by an American translator is John Leslie Garner's collection, published in 1888. It contains 152 quatrains, which the translator calls «Strophes.» The...

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Quatrains of Omar Khayyám in English Prose

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Omar Khayyám - Quatrains of Omar Khayyám in English Prose

Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 — 1936) was an Irish scholar, author and nationalist politician. In 1889 his prose translations of 466 quatrains of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was published by David Nutt. An abbreviated...

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Version 2

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Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Version 2

One of the greatest works of poetry in history, this lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet on subjects such as life, death, love, God and destiny. (Summary by Michael Armenta)

Michael Armenta 1 hour 27 minutes

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald 5th edition)

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Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald 5th edition)

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát — a Persian word denoting a specific type of two-line stanza. Omar's Rubaiyat is a beautiful anthology of Islamic wisdom literature: originally...

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Omar Khayyám - Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur

In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This edition contains 878 quatrains, and represents the most extensive translation of...

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Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)

Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1897 he published a collection of 211 quatrains,...

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Omar Khayyám - Quatrain

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012. This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It...

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Omar Khayyám - Quatrain from the Rubaiyat

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George Keene. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 26, 2011. The popularity of the celebrated...

Amy Gramour and 11 more 10 minutes

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Collected Translations

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Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Collected Translations

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) 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,...

Amy Gramour 1 hour 49 minutes

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