Mr. Vedder, as an artist interpreter of Omar Khayyam, is the peer of Mr. Fitzgerald. He has revealed new depths of meaning in the words of the great Persian poet-astronomer. He calls his work “a ...

A translated collection of Sarmad’s Persian quatrains (rubaiyat), the book also includes ... In one rubayi, he mentions the Persian poets Hafiz and Omar Khayyam, signalling his literary ...