eCognoscente - Poetry - Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat

ecognoscente.com — We love the idea that Edward FitzGerald took the art of translation to its extreme--from the manuscripts of Omar Khayyam he created his own version of The Rubaiyat more than six centuries later, literally remolding Khayyam's verse into some strange fantastical creature: a hybrid beautiful poem and one of the most beloved in English.... Feb 27, 2010 View in Crawl 4