Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Part 1 of 15 (Quatrains 1–67)

The only complete English translation of all 1,000 rubaiyat attributed to Omar Khayyam — and the first ever recorded in full. No complete English translation of Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat has ever existed — the largest ever published gathered 878 of the thousand quatrains attributed to him. This programme is the first to translate all 1,000 into English and the first to record them in full: every quatrain, in fresh translations made for this recording, with the Persian-style music of the Rubaiyat's own world beneath them. This episode: Quatrains 1–67 of 1,000 — fresh English verse translations made for this recording from the Persian originals (public domain), read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed from the programme's own Persian-style music library. A note on attribution: the thousand quatrains of the Rubaiyat come down through the manuscript tradition attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131); only a small core is certainly his, and "attributed" is kept throughout. Intermission: "The Unknown Island" — instrumental. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. 📚 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam playlist:    • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam   🎧 Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/kachelitv/