Various rowdy poets and also some sensible astronomers
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In the 975 years since the birth of Omar Khayyam, there have been many poets distinguished for their rowdy behaviour. Khayyam, who by all accounts was a sensible astronomer and mathematician, was almost certainly not one of them, and may not have written any of the quatrains attributed to him and translated in 1859 by Edward Fitzgerald. So this two-part list is presented for balance.
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