Iran's True Face; or, Persia. A Reading From Richard Le Gallienne's 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám'

Portrait of Omar Khayyam by Amir Mohammad Ghasemizadeh, 2004. Used the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence.

Richard Le Gallienne.

Read Richard Le Gallienne’s full Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations (1897) here.

Incidentally, Le Gallienne’s translation was featured prominently in an article I wrote for Free Inquiry a couple of years ago. It’s a very inspirational work (the poem, I mean, not my article!). Read ‘Faith and the Closing of the Universe’ here.