Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Edward Fitzgerald was aroused on all sides. After the first editionhad disappeared, inquiries for the little bookbecame frequent, and in the year 1868 he gavethe MS. of his second edition to Mr. Quaritch,and the Rubaiyyat came into circulation oncemore, but with several alterations and additionsby which the number of stanzas was somewhatincreased beyond the original seventy-five. Mostof the changes were, as might have been ex-pected, improvements: but in some instances theauthors taste or caprice was at fault, — notablyin the first Rub
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Edward Fitzgerald was aroused on all sides. After the first editionhad disappeared, inquiries for the little bookbecame frequent, and in the year 1868 he gavethe MS. of his second edition to Mr. Quaritch,and the Rubaiyyat came into circulation oncemore, but with several alterations and additionsby which the number of stanzas was somewhatincreased beyond the original seventy-five. Mostof the changes were, as might have been ex-pected, improvements: but in some instances theauthors taste or caprice was at fault, — notablyin the first RubcCiy. His fastidious desire to avoidanything that seemed baroque or unnatural, orappeared like plagiarism, may have influencedhim: but it was probably because he had alreadyused the idea in his rendering of Jamfs Salaman,that he sacrificed a fine and novel piece of imageryin his first stanza and replaced it by one ofmuch more ordinary character. If it were from.
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