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unusual facts about The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam



1809 in poetry

March 31 – Edward Fitzgerald (died 1883), English writer and poet best known for his English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Boulge

Boulge church is the burial place of the local poet and writer Edward Fitzgerald, whose most famous work was his translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Charles M. Relyea

In 1897, a publishing house chose Relyea to illustrate The Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers, Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem satirizing The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.


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