Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Rubáiyát is a collection of poems (of which there are about a thousand) attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám (1048-1123).

Influence

Like Shakespeare's works, Omar Khayyám's verses have provided later authors with quotations to use as titles:

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• The title of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novel Some Buried Caesar comes from one of the Tentmaker's quatrains (Fitzgerald's XVIII), for example.
• Eugene O'Neill's drama Ah, Wilderness! derives its title from the first quoted quatrain above.
• Agatha Christie used The Moving Finger
• In CyberFlix's PC game, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, the object is to save three important items, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, one of Adolf Hitler's paintings, and a notebook that includes German officials that are trying to gain an advantage by leading Russia into a communist revolution.

The British composer Granville Bantock produced a choral setting of Fitzgerald's translation 1906-1909.

Related Topics:
Granville Bantock - 1906 - 1909

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