Rubaiyat

The great Persian poet Omar Khayyam (c. 1048-1131) was a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. The poetry of Omar Khayyam was introduced to the European reader in the 19th century by English poet Edward Fitzgerald. From that moment, his global fame became increasingly popular, and the fashion for Khayyam turned into an epidemic.
The biography of Omar Khayyam is enveloped in legends, myths, and conjectures; it is impossible to determine how many quatrains are genuinely Khayyam's. One thing is clear - before us is the greatest poetic genius whose poetry was born from the rhythmic beating of two loving hearts...