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Omar Khayyam

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O·mar Khay·yám  (mär k-yäm, -m) 1050?-1123.
Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer remembered for his collection of quatrains The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald (1859).
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Noun1.Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam - Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)


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If you are agreed, say, in admiring Meredith, Hardy, Omar Khayyam, and Maeterlinck,--to take four particularly test-authors,--there is nothing to prevent your marrying at once.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
In those days Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam was known only to the elect, and Hayward repeated it to Philip.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
(1809-1883), Irish by birth, an eccentric though kind-hearted recluse, and a friend of Tennyson, is known solely for his masterly paraphrase (1859) of some of the Quatrains of the skeptical eleventh-century Persian astronomer-poet Omar Khayyam.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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