Timeline
Lifetime:
1857 -
1933
Passed: ≈
92 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Charles G. Blanden
Books by Charles G. Blanden
Omar Resung
Poetry
Non-Fiction
Translation
Poetry
Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat
Verse translation
Justin McCarthy
Charles Blanden's verse reworking of Justin McCarthy's prose translation of the Rubaiyat is a notable exception to the convention of translating the work in verse. Blanden's version uses an eight-line verse structure with a rhyming scheme of ABABCDCD...