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| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
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| by Omar Khayyam |
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| A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou . . .' is one of the most famous poetic lines ever written. One of the great achievements of poetry, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, was written in Persian in the 11th century. Omar Khayyam was a... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2007 |
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| The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam |
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| by Omar Khayyam |
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| When Edward Fitzgerald translated these 11th-century Persian poems in 1859 they became something of a sensation after one admiring reader passed them on to his friends--a circle that included Browning, Rosetti, and Tennyson. Omar Khayyam was... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 2004 |
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