Excerpt from Edward Fitzgerald's Rub 'iy t of Omar Khayy m: With Their Original Persian Sources, Collated From His Own and Literally Translated The influence of the Ouseley ms. Upon the poem forms the subject of the volume to which I have referred, and, save in so far as it recurs in the parallels which give excuse for the present work, may be dismissed, but the doubts which have sprung up as to the extent to which Edward fitzgerald took, as his editor, Mr. Aldis Wright, says, great liberties with the original, have arisen in consequence of the vicissitudes which have befallen the rest of the material from which the poet worked during the construction of his first edition. We have seen from Professor Cowell's letters to me (loc. Cit., p. Xxxiii) that he made a copy of the Ouseley ms. For Edward fitzgerald just before he went to India in August, 1856. In another letter he says: I got a copy made for him from the one ms. In the Bengal Asiatic Society's Library at Calcutta soon after I arrived in November, 1856. It reached fitzgerald June 14th. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.