Quatrain
by Omar Khayyám
Chapter 1 of 20 Quatrain - Read by CC
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- Running time
- 15 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Algy Pug, Chris Caron, David Lawrence, Harvey Spurr, Jason Mills and 15 others
- Translated by
- Sir William Jones
Chapters
About this recording
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012.
This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It appeared in Sir William Jones's "A Grammar of the Persian Language" (1771). (Introduction by Algy Pug)