The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / rendered into English quatrains by Edward FitzGerald. The five authorized versions.

Omar Khayyam.

891.55 O54rfha

New York : Published for the Classics club by W. J. Black, [1942]

3-178 pages : illustrations (facsimiles) ; 20 cm

Persian poetry -- Translations into English.

Poetry.

Persian.

Poetry.

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883.

"Edited with introduction and glossary by Gordon S. Haight."--5th prelim. leaf.

Edward FitzGerald and the Rubáiyát, by G. S. Haight.--First version, 1859.--Omar Khayyám the astronomer poet of Persia, by Edward FitzGerald.--Second version, 1808.--Facsimiles from the Bodleian manuscript of Omar Khayyám.--FitzGerald's Introduction to the third version.--Third version, 1872, fourth version, 1879, and fifth version, 1889.--Notes to the second version.--Vocabulary--Comparativ​e tables of stanzas in the five versions.