Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . ^k Omar Khayyam indebted for all I know of Oriental, and verymuch of other, literature. He admired OmarsGenius so much, that he would gladly have adoptedany such Interpretation of his meaning as if he That he could not, appearsby his Paper in the Calcutta Review already solargely quoted ; in which he argues from the Poemsthemselves, as well as from what records remain ofthe Poets Life. And if more were needed to disprove Theory, there is the Biographical Noticewhich he himself has drawn up in direct co

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . ^k Omar Khayyam indebted for all I know of Oriental, and verymuch of other, literature. He admired OmarsGenius so much, that he would gladly have adoptedany such Interpretation of his meaning as if he That he could not, appearsby his Paper in the Calcutta Review already solargely quoted ; in which he argues from the Poemsthemselves, as well as from what records remain ofthe Poets Life. And if more were needed to disprove Theory, there is the Biographical Noticewhich he himself has drawn up in direct contradic-tion to the Interpretation of the Poems given in hisNotes, (See pp. 13-14 of his Preface.) Indeed Ihardly knew poor Omar was so far gone till hisApologist informed me. For here we see that, 1 Perhaps would have edited the Poems himself some yearsago. He may now as little approve of my Version on one side,as of Mons. Nicolas Theory on the J^k ! niiiiiiuitillliiiTTTn

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