{"product_id":"rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam-2","title":"Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam By Fitzgerald, Edmund","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOmar Khayyám (1048–1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. Later, a body of quatrains became attached to his name, although not all were his works. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), an English country gentleman, published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry. After its discovery by D. G. Rossetti and others, the verse became extremely popular. Essentially a hedonist and a skeptic, Omar Khayyám, through FitzGerald, spoke with both an earthy and spiritual freedom that stirred a universal response. As a result, the \u003ci\u003eRubáiyát\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics. The fifth edition, published posthumously in 1889, was based on FitzGerald''s handwritten changes in a copy of the fourth edition, and is traditionally printed with the first edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57566300766590,"sku":"NW9780486264677","price":7.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780486264677.jpg?v=1783190682","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}