Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime.
Essentially a hedonist and a skep.
Rossetti and others, the verse became extremely popular.
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After its discovery by D.
These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), an English country gentleman, published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry.
Later, a body of quatrains became attached to his name, although not all were his works.
Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime