Rubaiyat of Modern Man

Rubaiyat of Modern Man.A Modern Sequel to Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Aly Wassil. [Illustrations by H. Matisse]. Loss Angeles, United World Academy and Fellowship, 1967. 36 p.

68 quatrains

FitzGerald’s Rubaíyat as a poem

FitzGerald’s Rubaíyat as a poem. William Cadbury.
ELH 34 (1967) 3, p. 541–563

Cadbury argues that the Rubáiyát is not lyric but “anti-lyric,” since its coherence depends upon our imagining an implied speaker.

The earliest collections of O. Khayyam

The earliest collections of O. Khayyam. V. Minorsky.
In: Yádníme-ye Jan Rypka 1967. Collection of articles on Persian and Tajik literature. Prague, Academia; The Hague, Paris, Mouton & Co., 1967. pp. 107-118.

When in 1949—52 the three anthologies of Omar Khayyam dated 604/1208, 613/1216 and 658/1259 appeared in quick succession in the West it was quite natural to hail them as our guides for establishing the much discussed poetical heritage of Khayyam.