To Which is Appended The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in the Fourth Version by EDWARD FITZGERALD

In the more than eighty years since its first publication, Palgrave's Golden Treasury has maintained itself as a classic in its field. The constant demand for this collection of songs and lyrics and the insistent requests for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have led the editors of the Modern Library to add the Fitzgerald masterpiece to the Palgrave anthology. The poet and compiler were contemporaries, and the works by which they will always be known appeared within two years of each other. This long-cherished volume is introduced by one of the foremost anthologists of our own time, Louis Untermeyer.