Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Edward Fitzgerald genius of Fitzgerald, no Persian poet is so wellknown in the western world as Abu-l-fath Omar,son of Ibrahim the Tentmaker of Naishapur,whose manhood synchronises with the Normanconquest of England, and who took for his poeticname (takhallus) the designation of his fatherstrade {Khayyam). The RubcCiyydt (Quatrains)do not compose a single poem divided into acertain number of stanzas ; there is no continuityof plan in them, and each stanza is a distinctthought expressed in musical verse. There is noother element of unit
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Edward Fitzgerald genius of Fitzgerald, no Persian poet is so wellknown in the western world as Abu-l-fath Omar,son of Ibrahim the Tentmaker of Naishapur,whose manhood synchronises with the Normanconquest of England, and who took for his poeticname (takhallus) the designation of his fatherstrade {Khayyam). The RubcCiyydt (Quatrains)do not compose a single poem divided into acertain number of stanzas ; there is no continuityof plan in them, and each stanza is a distinctthought expressed in musical verse. There is noother element of unity in them than the generaltendency of the Epicurean idea, and the arbitrarydivan form by which they are grouped accordingto the alphabetical arrangement of the final let-ters ; those in which the rhymes end in a consti-tuting the first division, those with b the second,and so on. The peculiar attitude towards religionand the old questions of fate, immortality, the.
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