fitzKhayyam

fitzKhayyam

Jekyll edition of the first five editions of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian scientist and poet. Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) was a British poet. Today, FitzGerald is best known for his loose verse translations of a series of Persian quatrains (four-line stanzas) traditionally attributed to Khayyam. FitzGerald revised his translations and their organisation several times; the fitzKhayyam site attempts to represent the relationships between those stanzas in hypertextual form.

The site was created for teaching purposes by Daniel Allington, using Jekyll.

It is currently deployed at this address:

https://fitzkhayyam.netlify.app/