Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Collected Translations
by Omar Khayyám
Chapter 1 of 4 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Preface to the Cadell translation with intro by Richard Garnett
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- Running time
- 1 h 50 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Amy Gramour
- Translated by
- Jessie Cadell, Elizabeth Alden Curtis, Jessica Rittenhouse
Chapters
About this recording
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubáiyát" (derived from the Arabic root word for "four"), meaning "quatrains". (Introduction by Wikipedia)
The three translations by women comprise this collection of recordings of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. (Note by Amy Gramour)