Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a celebrated collection of quatrains attributed to the Persian polymath Omar Khayyam, best known in the English-speaking world through Edward FitzGerald’s influential 19th-century translation.

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instanceOf literary work
poetry collection
quatrain collection
associatedPhilosophy Epicureanism
skepticism
associatedWith Omar Khayyam
attributedTo Omar Khayyam
author Omar Khayyam
countryOfOrigin Persia
culturalStatus canonical work in world literature
classic of Persian poetry
form rubai
genre lyric poetry
philosophical poetry
hasForm rhyming quatrains
hasInfluentialEdition 1859 first edition of FitzGerald’s translation
1868 second edition of FitzGerald’s translation
hasMultipleRecensions true
hasTheme critique of religious dogma
existential doubt
hedonism
impermanence
hasTranslation Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam self-linksurface differs
surface form: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Edward FitzGerald translation)
influenced English poetry
Victorian literature
Western popular culture
influencedBy Persian poetic tradition
language Persian
literaryMovement Sufi-influenced poetry
literaryTradition Persian literature
mainSubject carpe diem
fate
love
skepticism about religion
transience of life
wine
notableEnglishTranslator Edward FitzGerald
notableQuatrain A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ
originalAuthorOccupation astronomer
mathematician
philosopher
poet
popularizedBy Edward FitzGerald
popularizedIn 19th century
publicationCentury 11th century
questionedAspect authenticity of attribution of some quatrains
verseForm quatrain

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Omar Khayyam notableWork Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Persian literature hasNotableWork Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Persian culture notableWork Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi hasPart Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam hasTranslation Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Edward FitzGerald translation)
Diwan-e-Ghalib contains Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
this entity surface form: rubaiyat
Khwaju Kermani wroteInForm Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
this entity surface form: rubaiyat
Bidel Dehlavi notableWork Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
this entity surface form: rubaiyat