Sunday, April 8, 2018
Strange, Is It Not? Rendering Omar Khayyam Comments
Rating: ★5.0
Strange, millions of men died telling the road to heaven
And yet none returned even once to show us this road
If after death they themselves reached the preached heaven
Or how maggots ate them with their empty skulls left behind.
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8/23/2025 10:18:04 PM # 1.0.0
Edward FitzGerald's English translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat is a classic. It would have been better if you had followed the rhyming pattern of a Rubai (a, b, d) also. Overall, a nice attempt. Thanks.
Edward FitzGerald's translations are true to the spirit of Omar Khayyam but they are not true translations and do not conform to the original verse. See if you could find the original quatrains in Persian. Fitzgerald often broke the syntax in order to rhyme at the risk of clarity. Classic in what sense? Many British poets have made fun of his translations.