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A very large proportion, however probably not less than nine-tenths of the whole collection is the work of other hands ... the many-sided expression of a people’s spiritual and intellectual life, the work of many poets, known and unknown, covering a period of six centuries’.This is the first and still the only poetical translation of all of the poems collected under the name of Omar Khayyam published for the first time in over eighty years.

‘Thompson has put into verse this whole body of Persian Poetry. It is a marvel of close translation, accurate and satisfactory. Nathan haskell Dole, from the Introduction.

THE COMPLETE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

Translated by Eban Francis Thompson

Edward Fitgerald’s often innaccurate and frequently criticized versions of less than one-tenth of the Rubaiyat attributed to Omar Khayyam was at least instrumental in bringing the form of the ruba’i to the attention of the west. The truth is that many of the poems collected in Omar’s name were actually composed by far greater Sufi Master Poets: Rumi, Hafiz, Attar, Abu Sa’id, Ansari, Anwari, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Khaju Kirmani. One of the great Persian scholars R.A. Nicholson, said: ‘Many quatrains (ruba’is) included in the so- called Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam are unquestionably his.

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