The Rubaiyat

About this edition

Translator:

Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), 1859

Source:

Project Gutenberg #246

License:

Public domain worldwide: FitzGerald's first edition appeared in 1859 and he died in 1883.

Changes:

Project Gutenberg boilerplate, the edition's introduction, and FitzGerald's endnotes removed; the first (1859) and fifth (1889) versions of the poem kept side by side with their quatrain numbering. The translation text itself is unchanged.