Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #132 hosted by Algy Pug.

[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community_2012/librivox_community_podcast_132.mp3]

Duration: 49min 54s

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám is one of the best loved and most widely translated collections of poetry in world literature. In this podcast, Librivox volunteers discuss different aspects of the Rubaiyat, and we share some excerpts from the many recordings of the Rubaiyat in the Librivox catalogue.

0:00 – Introduction

2:50 – Bob Gonzalez interviews Algy Pug

24:35 – Librivox recordings of the Rubaiyat

38:59 – Amy Gramour’s Rubaiyat project

41:22 – Mostafa with an insider’s view of the Rubaiyat

48:22 – Conclusion

There are many online sources for Rubaiyat material, but one of the best, and one that has often been used as the source for texts in Librivox recordings is the following:

Excerpts from the following Librivox recordings have been used in this podcast:

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Fitzgerald – First Edition

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Fitzgerald – Fifth Edition

Quatrain, translated by H.G Keene

Quatrain, translated by Sir William Jones

18 Quatrains from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, translated by Whitley Stokes

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Whinfield

Omar Resung, by Charles Blanden

Quatrains of Omar Khayyám of Nishapur, translated by E.F. Thompson

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, translated by H.M. (Jessie) Cadell

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