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A virtual exhibit of the Sigurd Peterson collection of editions of Edmund Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Created by students in ENG 470/570: Studies in Poetry at Oregon State University, Spring 2025.

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Omar Khayyám, born in 1048, was a Persian poet who was also interested in mathematics, astronomy, philosophy. Although he wasn’t known in his lifetime for his poetry, it was after he passed that his poetry earned him lasting fame, particularly through the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. This… more

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This version of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was translated into English by Edward FitzGerald, with interesting black and white illustrations produced by Marjorie Anderson. This book was published by London: Collins Clear-Type Press… more

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This specific edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was published by Random House in 1947. The collection of poems is believed to be written by Omar Khayyám and translated into English by Edward FitzGerald. This edition of the … more

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For my edition of the Rubáiyát, I selected #65 from the SCARC inventory. Published in 1946, this volume contains both the fourth and first edition of Fitzgerald’s translation of Omar Khayyám’s poem. 138 pages are bound and protected by a hard cover enveloped in red cloth. Intricate and colorful illustrations frame each stanza, alongside… more

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This edition of The Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm contains both the first and fifth translations by Edward FitzGerald. It was published by Pocket Books, Inc., a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster established in 1939 with the mission of producing cheap mass-market paperbacks for a… more

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My selected edition is titled Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, authored by Omar Khayyám and translated by Edward FitzGerald. This particular edition holds 193 pages and was published in 1933 by Illustrated Editions Company, a publication company based in New York. This now-defunct… more

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This edition of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is illustrated by Ronald Balfour. This book was translated by Edward Fitzgerald and published in 1920 by Dodd Mead and Company, New York and printed in Great Britain by Chiswick Press: Charles Wittingham and Griggs, London. This book is 156 pages and uses FitzGerald's fourth edition of translation. … more

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This version of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a parody named “The Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers.” It was written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by The Century Co. in 1897. James Whitcomb Riley was very popular by the time this was published, so it kind of flies under the radar of his published works. The Century Co. was also a very popular… more

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“In a Persian Garden: A Song Cycle for Four Solo Voices (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, and Bass)” is an edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyàm that is composed by Liza Lehmann. (1862-1918) The score uses the Rubáiyát translation by Edward Fitzgerald, drawing form both the first and fifth editions of Fitzgerald’s translations.

The score was published by Metzler & Co… more

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