Many will read this charming reprint of a forgotten book not for its educational, but for its literary charm, for in it FitzGerald proved himself a master of the two crafts. -"Book Review Digest," Vol. 2 [1906]
People note British poet Edward FitzGerald for his translation in 1859 of The Rubáiyát, a collection of quatrains of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer Omar Khayyám.