The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 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 Khayyam, a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts per line, hence the word rubaiyat, meaning "quatrains."
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of...
