Edward Fitzgerald

Edward FitzGerald was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The spelling of his name as both FitzGerald and Fitzgerald is seen. The use here of FitzGerald conforms with that of his own publications, anthologies such as Quiller-Couchs Oxford Book of English Verse, and most reference books up through about the 1960s.. English poet and writer; first and most famous English translation of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam