Edward FitzGerald
Edward FitzGerald 1809-83, English man of letters. A dilettante and scholar, FitzGerald spent most of his life living in seclusion in Suffolk. His masterpiece, a translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, appeared anonymously in 1859 and passed unnoticed until Dante Gabriel Rossetti made it famous. Revised editions followed in 1868, 1872, and 1879. FitzGerald's Rubaiyat has long been one of the most popular English poems. Although actually a paraphrase rather than a translation of a poem by the 11th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam , it retains the spirit of the original in its poignant expression of a philosophy counseling man to live life to the fullest while he can. Among FitzGerald's other works are Euphranor (1851), a Platonic dialogue, and Polonius (1852), a collection of aphorisms.
Bibliography: See his letters (ed. by A. M. and A. B. Terhune, 4 vol., 1980); biographies by A. M. Terhune (1947) and T. Wright (2 vol., 1904; repr. 1971).
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Edward FitzGerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; a critical edition. (reprint, 1997).(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 484 words
; 9780813927251 Edward FitzGerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; a critical edition. (reprint, 1997) Omar Khayyam. Ed. by Christopher Decker. University Press of Virginia 2008 258 pages $22.50 Paperback Victorian literature and culture series...
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FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat, in and out of time.(Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...a double anniversary: March 31, 2009 marks both the bicentennial of the birth of Edward FitzGerald and the sesquicentennial of his Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which was published (give or take a few days) on the poet's fiftieth birthday...
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Metaphor, translation, and autoekphrasis in FitzGerald's Rubaiyat.(Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...appeal. I mean FitzGerald's commitment to interpreting Omar Khayyam's quatrains not mystically but--in a term of FitzGerald...because it was embroiled from the start in a polemic against Omar Khayyam's allegorizers. They were a tribe who had been around...
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, edited by Tony Briggs (Phoenix Poetry, [pounds]5.99)
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 4/28/2009; 289 words
; Sharon Griffiths don't tell Patricia Fara. Her history of global science from Ancient Babylon to Silicon Va lley, from primitive irrigation to advanced physics, debunks the idea of continual progress to show how the world of science has advanced and receded throughout the centuries - just compare
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/22/2009; 491 words
; Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Edward Fitzgerald. Daniel Karlin, editor. Oxford University Pess...Ixix + 167 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-954297-0. Edward Fitzgerald's loose translation of the ruba' iat, written by Omar...
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William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...And wilderness is paradise enow.' (1) In these lines from 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', which had been avail able in a translation by Edward Fitzgerald since 1859, all the pleasures of life which William Morris valued most seem to...
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Editing the Rubaiyat: two case-studies and a prospectus.(Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward FitzGerald is an enjoyably preposterous...Absal (1856); Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859); The Mighty Magician...Volume I: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), Salaman and Absal...Volume II: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (2nd ed., 1868), ...
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Omar Khayyam and the ever-enchanting Rubaiyat, BUSINESS TIMES
Newspaper article from: Business Times (Malaysia); 4/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...to take pleasure in them for Omar Khayyam's works are not only accessible...Rubaiyat into English is by Edward Fitzgerald, the British scholar, poet...regarding Khayyam's life. Omar Khayyam's actual name was Ghiyath...
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The benefits of reading the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as pastoral.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...publication of J. B. Nicolas' French translations of Omar Khayyam --collected in book form as Les quatrains de Kheyam in...de l'Algerie et des Colonies four years earlier--Edward FitzGerald was provoked into a caustic disagreement with its translator...
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THE KEEPER: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Magazine article from: Middle East; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...November when The Keeper: the Legend of Omar Khayyam has its London premiere at The Vue Cinema...had exchanged and analysed verses of Omar Khayyam while Riahi was a Sony executive in...hopefully, seek more knowledge about Omar Khayyam and the cultures of the Middle East...
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Edward FitzGerald
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
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