The life of Edward FitzGerald : translator of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / by Alfred McKinley Terhune
1947, First Edition. New Haven London : Yale University Press ; G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #436596
Physical description; xi pages, 1 leaf 373 pages includ. illustrations (music) genealogical table frontispiece (portrait) folded map 25 cm. Notes; "References": pages [357]-362. Bibliography: p. [357]-362. - Includes index. Contents; Parentage and early life -- Bury St Edmunds -- Cambridge -- The genteel gipsy -- Doubts and perplexities -- Thackeray and Tennyson -- Boulge Cottage -- The Woodbridge wits -- London during the 'forties -- The Cowells -- "A very lazy fellow" -- Early works -- Spanish and Persian -- Financial troubles -- The wanderer -- Marriage -- The romance of "the rubáiyát" -- The Persian poet and the English poem -- Market hill -- Sailing -- Winter quarters -- FitzGerald and Fletcher: herring merchants -- More Persian and Spanish -- The laird of Little Grange -- Old friends and new -- Greek translations and other works -- Last years. Subjects; FitzGerald, Edward 1809-1883. FitzGerald, Edward 1809-1883 ; Biography. FitzGerald, Edward ; Biography. 1800-1899. Translators Great Britain 19th century. Translators. Authors, English 19th century ; Biography.
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