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Velikiy persidskiy poet Omar Hayyam (ok. 1048-1131) byl matematikom, astronomom, filosofom. Poeziyu O.Hayyama otkryl dlya evropeyskogo chitatelya v XIX veke angliyskiy poet Edvard Ficdzheral'd. S etogo momenta mirovaya slava ego stanovilas' vse populyarney, a moda na Hayyama prevratilas' v epidemiyu. Biografiya O.Hayyama okutana legendami, mifami i domyslami, nevozmozhno opredelit', skol'ko chetverostishiy podlinno hayyamovskie, ochevidno odno — pered nami velichayshiy poeticheskiy geniy, ch'ya poeziya rodilas' iz ritmicheskogo bieniya dvuh vlyublennyh serdec...