Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál (Esprios Classics)

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) dubbed the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Although commercially unsuccessful at first FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872 which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world to the extent that numerous Omar Khayyam clubs were formed and there was a fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat.