![]() ![]() ![]() It deals with the ultimate questions of life and death while imparting an Epicurean style philosophy of not taking things too seriously. Khayyam’s Rubaiyat is considered a poem for all seasons. Unlike other Persian poets, Khayyam combined his obsession of Persian verse with his insights about philosophy, hence creating something wholly unique to him in the giant and rich inventory of classic Persian literature. Khayyam was a student of Ibn Sina, the Islamic predecessor of Socrates, who studied philosophy under him but more than philosophy, he was attracted to poetry. Because of his contributions, in 1982, NASA decided to name a crater on Moon after him. ![]() Omar Khayyam was an 11th-century polymath from Iran who is better known for his contributions in astronomy and mathematics rather than poetry. It’s believed that when the English painter, John Ruskin first received the copy of Rubaiyat in the 1800s, he described his feelings as, ‘I never did - till this day - read anything so glorious’, a feeling that many many others have come to share since that time. Similarly, Mark Twain and T.S Eliot too had applauded the splendour of Khayyam’s ideas as well as the labour of FitzGerald that went into making those ideas read into sweet and beautiful poetry. It’s believed that Oscar Wilde described Rubaiyat as ‘a masterpiece of art’ placing it with Shakespeare’s sonnets as one of his greatest literary loves. ![]()
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