Omar Khayyám

Publisher's NoteTHE seventy-five stanzas of verse presented here are themost avidly read composition. It probably matches the worksof the best-known poets of any language in the world. TheEnglish translation of The Rubaiyat had appeared at a timewhen the prevalent reading was dominated by something...

OMAR KHAYYAMTHEASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIAOmar Khayyam was born at Naishapiir in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time...

iMEReeR-T COL.E. 15(00. F the three great philosopher-poets of the world—the author of the Book of Job, the Roman poet Lucretius, and the Persian poet Omar Khayyam—none has escaped the appellation of sceptic. Whether the name truly applies to the second, even the unlearned may now judge,...