Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the name Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, also known as «the Astronomer-Poet of Persia.» This book had a great impact on the literary developments in Europe. By the 1880s, it was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world. After the publication, numerous «Omar Khayyam clubs» were formed, and there was a «fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat.»