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'''The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam''' is the collection of [[quatrain]]s—four-line stanzas—written by the [[Persia]]n astronomer [[Omar Khayyam]] (1048 – 1123). They are largely known to the English-speaking world in the translations written by Edward Fitzgerald, first published, anonymously, in 1859.

'''The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam''' is the collection of [[quatrain]]s—four-line stanzas—written by the [[Persia]]n astronomer [[Omar Khayyam]] (1048 – 1123). They are largely known to the English-speaking world in the translations written by Edward FitzGerald, first published, anonymously, in 1859.

They are perhaps some of the most quoted poetry in the English language: of approximately a hundred stanzas, about forty of them are included ''in full'' in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

They are perhaps some of the most quoted poetry in the English language: of approximately a hundred stanzas, about forty of them are included ''in full'' in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.