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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.
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Fitzgerald, Edward
Fitzgerald, Edward (1809–83), educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His quirky but engaging personality made him much beloved by many close friends, who included Thackeray, Alfred and Frederick Tennyson, and Carlyle. In 1851 he published Euphranor, a Dialogue on Youth and later he produced translations of plays by Calderón, Aeschylus, and Sophocles, a collection of aphorisms, and a selection of Crabbe's poetry. His only celebrated work is his free translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859). He was a prolific and delightful letter-writer, whose anecdotes of his literary friends have been a gold mine to biographers. His Collected Letters was published in 1980.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Fitzgerald, Edward." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Fitzgerald, Edward." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 25, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-FitzgeraldEdward.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Fitzgerald, Edward." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 25, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-FitzgeraldEdward.html |
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