Prior to the discussion, brief information about the poet, Omar Khayyam will be given. This study will, therefore, discuss to what extent FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat is a Victorian invention. In this respect, FitzGerald’s literary work does not communicate the underlying features of Khayyam’s poetry, but illustrates the concerns, anxieties, doubts, and the mainstream mood of the Victorian era, an age of duality. FitzGerald’s translation or re-writing includes numerous themes and characteristics such as pessimism, skepticism, loss of faith, brevity, transience, ephemerality of life, hedonism, Epicureanism, materialism, and cynicism peculiar to the Victorian era. Edward FitzGerald’s translation of Omar Khayyam’s ruba’i in his work, Rubâiyât of Omar Khayyâm (1859) demonstrates stark differences from the actual work of Omar Khayyam.
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