Quatrain from the Rubaiyat
By Omar Khayyám · Running time 0:10:02 · Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George Keene. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 26, 2011. The popularity of the celebrated translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has cast many other worthy translations into undeserved obscurity. Among the earlier translators was Henry George Keene (1781-1856) whose translation of one quatrain appeared in 'Fundgruben des Orients' in 1816. Instead of the image of the wine and cup popularly associated with the Rubaiyat, the stanza translated by Keene
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