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The collection was assembled by Curator Carl Weber to commemorate the centennial in 1959, as described in a March 1959 article in the Colby Library Quarterly. The many editions of the Rubáiyát feature exquisite bindings and illustrations. ()Įdward FitzGerald made Khayyám the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated (some would say “fanciful”) translation and adaptations of Khayyám’s rather small number of quatrains (rubaiyaas) in Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, which also led to his revival among Iranian readers. Edmund Dulac illustration from 1909 edition of the Rubaiyat. His significance as a philosopher and teacher and his few remaining philosophical works have not received the same attention as his scientific and poetic writings. He wrote the most important treatise on algebra in pre-modern times and proposed a heliocentric theory centuries before Copernicus. The author of treatises on mechanics, geography, and music, Khayyám was one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the medieval period. Khayyám was a Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physician, and poet from Neyshapur, in modern day Iran. The Rubáiyát is the work of Omar Khayyám (1048-1131), translated into English and adapted by Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883).

“A Recent Accession”: The Colby Library Quarterly.

Robert Edward Lee Strider II (President 1960-1979).

Julius Seelye Bixler (President 1942-1960).

Franklin Winslow Johnson (President 1929-1942).

Eileen M Curran (Acting Librarian, 1973-1976).

Kenneth P Blake, Jr (Librarian 1964-1973).

James Humphry III (Librarian 1947-1957).

Carl Jefferson Weber (Curator 1940-1958).

It is the perfect complement to Richardson’s biography of The Rubaiyat, Nearer to the Heart’s Desire.

Annotated by Richardson and illustrated beautifully with the elegant watercolors of Lincoln Perry, this edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam will bring this affirmed classic to a new generation of readers. Richardson notes, The Rubaiyat is startlingly modern in its outlook and composition, and through it, one civilization speaks to another as equals and across a gap of almost a thousand years. In FitzGerald’s hands, the individual Persian quatrains of the original coalesced into one of the most moving and often-cited modern poetic statements about loss, longing, and nostalgia.

Eliot, and Robert Bly, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was written in eleventh-century Persia and was largely unknown in the West until it was translated into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859. Title: Edward FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamĪ work of staggering poetic beauty that has inspired the likes of John Ruskin, T.