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The Pleasures of Life: Foote’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

by Maureen Buja March 30th, 2022 Tags: Foote

In 1859, English poet and writer Edward FitzGerald published the first translation of what he called the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Coming from one of the wealthiest families in England, FitzGerald could do as he wished and one of the

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