Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Author:Edward Fitzgerald -translator into English From the Introduction by Louis Untermeyer:
"The spirit as well as the music of the Rubaiyat does not date: it is both timely and timeless. Each new generation that discovers it revitalizes it and makes it new, serving as an escape from drab circumstance into venturous hope-'nearer to the heart's desire'- from negative doubt into positive delight."