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Second Rubaiyat Miscellany
- By: Louisa Stuart Costello Edward Byles Cowell Nathan Haskell Dole Henry George Keene Rex Löwenberg Charles J. Pickering Frank Siller Whitley Stokes W. E. B. Whittaker
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In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam with translations of some verses. Interest in the poetry of Omar Khayyam received its first major boost in the English speaking world when Edward Fitzgerald published a translation of 75 quatrains in 1859. Fitzgerald’s mentor was Professor Edward Byles Cowell, who, in the previous year, had published an essay entitled “Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia” which included translations of thirty quatrains. In 1885 Whitley Stokes, a renowned ...
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