THE ATHENAEUMRubáiyát of Omar KhayyámOmar Khayyám
Poetry
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textEdward FitzGerald’s free English version of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyám, the Persian astronomer and mathematician. It went almost unsold in 1859 until copies were found in a London bookseller’s penny box and passed round by Rossetti and his friends. “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou.”
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 50 minutes
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #246. In the public domain in the United States.