Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . m Edward Fitzgerald a portion of his regular studies. They read to-gether the poetical remains of Khayyam — achoice of reading which sufficiently indicatesthe depth and range of Mr. CowelPs Khayyam, although not quite forgotten,enjoyed in the history of Persian literature acelebrity like that of Occleve and Cower in ourown. In the many Tazkirdt (memoirs or memo-rials) of Poets, he was mentioned and quotedwith esteem; but his poems, labouring as theydid under the original sin of heresy and atheism,were seldom looked at, a
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . m Edward Fitzgerald a portion of his regular studies. They read to-gether the poetical remains of Khayyam — achoice of reading which sufficiently indicatesthe depth and range of Mr. CowelPs Khayyam, although not quite forgotten,enjoyed in the history of Persian literature acelebrity like that of Occleve and Cower in ourown. In the many Tazkirdt (memoirs or memo-rials) of Poets, he was mentioned and quotedwith esteem; but his poems, labouring as theydid under the original sin of heresy and atheism,were seldom looked at, and from lack of demandon the part of readers, had become rarer thanthose, of most other writers since the days ofFirdausi. European scholars knew little of hisworks beyond his Arabic treatise on Algebra,and Mr. Cowell may be said to have disentombedhis poems from oblivion. Now, thanks to thefine taste of that scholar, and to the transmuting. lUJLJUJLJJUA^JULJLJL yAJAJJLJAJJUAJAJAJAJLJA^Al^^
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