English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1337 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat
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The idea
Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, of eighteen fifty-nine, is a free translation from Persian of quatrains attributed to the astronomer-poet Omar Khayyam. Unsuccessful at first, it was popularized from eighteen sixty-one and admired by the Pre-Raphaelites.
In practice
Persian quatrains in English.
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It is a translation, very freely made.
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