A. J. Arberry: Routledge Revivals: The Romance of the Rubaiyat (1959) [PDF]

First published in 1959, this reprint of the first edition of Edward Fitz Gerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat is accompanied by an introduction and notes by A J Arberry, one of Britain’s most distinguished Orientalist scholars. The Rubaiyat is a selection of poems written in Persian attributed to Omar Khayyam. The work will be of interest to those studying Middle Eastern Literature.