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The Rubaiyat of Khayam is a collection of poems attributed to Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet and mathematician who lived in the 11th and 12th centuries. The poems are written in the form of quatrains, or four-line verses, and deal with themes such as life, death, love, fate, and wisdom. The word “rubaiyat” means “quatrains” in Persian.
The most famous translation of the Rubaiyat of Khayyam into English was done by Edward FitzGerald, a British poet, in the 19th century. He published five editions of his translation, each with different changes and additions. His first edition, published in 1859, had 75 quatrains, while his fifth edition, published in 1889, had 101 quatrains.
The Rubaiyat of Khayyam is considered one of the classics of world literature, and has influenced many poets, artists, and musicians. It is also a source of many popular quotations, such as “A flask of wine, a book of verse, and thou” and “The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on”.