Omar Khayyam's Bodleian Rubaiyat Retransmogrified

Omar Khayyam's Bodleian Rubaiyat RetransmogrifiedHerein are the 158 quatrains by Omar Khayyam from the Bodleian Rubaiyat retransmogrified, more than 100 of them omitted by FitzGerald. Updated with ornamentation 3 2017. Coumans quatrain correspondence table at his fine website, showing the Bodleian Rubaiyat manuscripts various public domain quatrains translations and or stylizations, allows one to home in on the real Omar Khayyam by reading between the lines of literal and the poetic. How ever so

Herein are the 158 quatrains by Omar Khayyam from the Bodleian Rubaiyat retransmogrified, more than 100 of them omitted by FitzGerald. Updated with ornamentation 3/2017.

CoumansÕ quatrain correspondence table at his fine website, showing the Bodleian Rubaiyat manuscriptÕs various public domain quatrainsÕ translations and/or stylizations, allows one to home in on the real Omar Khayyam by reading between the lines of literal and the poetic.

How ever so many quatrains dealing with drinking came to be written indicates how prime the theme of wine was meant to be, or at least the useful connections to thereof, plus the connotation of drinking wine extending unto the enjoyment of life in in general through its drinking in. Nevertheless, descriptions of total drunkenness are unmistakable and ever-present.

LetÕs call FitzGeraldÕs renderings to be about 40, since he got two from a couple and also used bits and pieces. His Rubaiyat of 114 quatrains made for the greatest poem in history.