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    Quatrain
    Quatrain
    Quatrain
    Audiobook15 minutes

    Quatrain

    Written by Omar Khayyám

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012.

    This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It appeared in Sir William Jones's "A Grammar of the Persian Language" (1771). (Introduction by Algy Pug)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Quatrain
    Author

    Omar Khayyám

    Omar Khayyam (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran, and spent most of his life near the court of the Karakhanid and Seljuq rulers in the period which witnessed the First Crusade. (Wikipedia)

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