Who translated the ' Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ' into English?
A
Thomas Carlyle
B
Edward Fitzgerald
C
D.G. Rossetti
D
William Thackeray
Correct Answer: Edward Fitzgerald
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131), dubbed "the Astronomer - Poet of Persia".