Edward FitzGerald‘s nineteenth century translations (or what he called his “transmogrification”) of poems known as The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, originally written in Persian by the poet and mathematician Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), have become enormously influential in the Western Canon as a classic work of English Literature. Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat has lent itself to scores of fine press editions, as artists and illustrators such as Edmund Dulac, … Continue reading The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald Translation, George G. Harrap & Co. (1930)