Table of Contents
Part I
Chapter 1 Omar Khayyam and His Rubaiyat 3
Chapter 2 The Legend of the Three Students 10
Chapter 3 The World of Omar Khayyam: Nishapur, Khorasan, and Seljuq Persia 14
Chapter 4 The Early Years of Omar Khayyam 20
Chapter 5 Omar Khayyam and the Court of the Seljuqs 26
Chapter 6 Omar Khayyam and His Associates, 1075-1090 34
Chapter 7 The Disastrous Decade: The 1090s 41
Chapter 8 The Sufi Turn 49
Chapter 9 Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat 53
Chapter 10 Later Life and Last Day of Omar Khayyam 60
Interlude: The Destruction of Nishapur 64
Part II
Chapter 11 London, 1861: FitzGerald's Rubaiyat Appears 73
Chapter 12 FitzGerald's Family and Early Years 77
Chapter 13 School Years 81
Chapter 14 Thackeray 90
Chapter 15 Tennyson 96
Chapter 16 Carlyle 103
Chapter 17 Bachelor Life 108
Chapter 18 A Friendship Like a Love: William Kenworthy Browne 112
Chapter 19 Poetry 117
Chapter 20 FitzGerald at Work: Editing and Assembly; the Example of Barton 121
Chapter 21 FitzGerald and Persia 125
Chapter 22 Rendering Rubaiyat 130
Chapter 23 Translated or Rendered? 138
Chapter 24 Gerontion: The Last Years of Edward FitzGerald 145
Chapter 25 The Lucretian Parallel 150
Chapter 26 FitzGerald's Rubaiyat Now 156
Image Credits 163
Notes 165
Index 185