#rubaiyat

¶ Did FitzGerald turn Khayyam into an Epicurean, or was he one already?

Everyone's grandfather here can recite some Khayyam. In English, everyone's grandfather could recite FitzGerald, which is not quite the same thing. FitzGerald's version (fifth edition, stanza XXIV; both the first and fifth editions are on Project Gutenberg) reads like a Roman poem:…