The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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"description": "LibriVox recording of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Whinfield.Omar Khayyám (1048\u20131131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rubáiyát (quatrains), a four line rhyming stanza, which were popularized in an extensively reworked collection in English by Edward Fitzgerald, the first edition of which appeared in 1859.
However, Fitzgerald was neither the first nor the most scholarly of the translators of Omar Khayyam\u2019s rubáiyát. As well as translating the poems of Hafez and Rumi, Edward Henry Whinfield (1836-1922) also produced a much more extensive English version of the rubáiyát. In 1883 he published a bilingual edition of 500 quatrains, in which the Persian original is presented side by side with the English translation.
This is a bilingual recording. Each quatrain will be read first in Persian and then in English translation. While listeners unfamiliar with the Persian language will not able to appreciate the meaning of the quatrains in their original form, everyone can at least enjoy the musicality of Omar\u2019s verse, which Whinfield often succeeds in capturing. (Summary by Algy Pug)
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