Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse

book is in nervous blank verse, a mode of composition which he handled

with great ease and skill. There is no waste of power in diffuseness and no employment of unnecessary epithets. It gives the impression of a work of the Shakespearean age, and reveals a kindred felicity, strength, and directness of language. It deserves to rank with his best efforts in poetry, but its ill-success...