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What was the cultural movement during which Omar Khayyam's poetry became popular in the English-reading world?

  • Orientalism

  • Romanticism

  • Modernism

  • Gothic Revival

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Omar Khayyam's poetry became widely known to the English-reading world during the cultural movement of Orientalism. Edward FitzGerald's translation of his poetry, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," enjoyed great success during this period.
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