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The Stanzas of Omar Khayyam (Garner translation)

John Leslie Garner

An English translation of Khayyám's quatrains by John Leslie Garner, preserved as a cloth-bound library book.

An English translation of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyám, shaped by the translator's wording.

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Front cover of a dark red cloth-bound book with a vertical ribbed texture. A cream-colored library label in the upper left reads PK, 6516, G3, Copy 2 in handwritten black ink.
Omar Khayyám, The Stanzas of Omar Khayyam, translated by John Leslie Garner.

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What it is

This book is an English translation of Omar Khayyám's quatrains made by John Leslie Garner. The surviving copy is a dark red cloth-bound volume with a library catalogue label on its cover.

Why it matters

Translations like Garner's helped spread Khayyám's poetry to English readers, each version shaping the poems slightly differently through word choice and rhythm. The physical book itself, with its library markings, shows how such texts were collected and preserved for study over generations.

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  • What can the cover and library label tell you about how this book was used and stored?
  • Why might translators choose different words for the same original poem?
  • What themes do you notice recurring in the opening stanzas?

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