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Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and doubts with wit and clarity, and Khayyam became one of its most accomplished masters with his touching meditations on the transience of human life and of the natural world. One of the supreme achievements of medieval literature, the reckless romanticism and the pragmatic fatalism in the face of death means these verses continue to hold the imagination of modern readers.

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'I found Robert Wilson's 'Omar Khayyam' very readable. It will stand well in print in Scotland' EDWIN MORGAN The Rubaiyat of Omar... takes on a contemporary gloss in a rumbustious reworking in Scots of the literal text of the Persian poet. THE HERALD --The Herald
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writing in the eleventh century, khayyam was one of the most accomplished masters of the new and increasingly popular ruba'i, or two line stanza, that had been adopted by poets to help them shake off the artifice of conventional court poetry and express their personal feelings with wit and clarity. khayyam ranges in his stanzas through the most fundamental aspects of human experience and, since edward fitzgerald's victorian translation, his verses have been among the most popular in the english language. in this new translation the persian scholar peter avery and the poet john heath-stubbs have recaptured the sceptical and unorthodox spirit of the persian text by giving as literal an english version of the original verse as possible.

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  • PublisherPenguin Classics
  • Publication date1981
  • ISBN 10 0140443843
  • ISBN 13 9780140443844
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages128
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