Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Subtitle: The Life and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781786720146
Subjects: Fitzgerald, edward, 1809-1883; Omar khayyam; Authors, english; Authors, biography
Description: "Its lines and verses have become part of the western literary canon and his translation of this most famous of poems has been continuously in print in for almost a century and a half. But just who was Edward FitzGerald? Was he the eccentric recluse that most scholars would have us believe? Is there more to the man than just his famous translation? In The Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam William Martin and Sandra Martin go beyond the standard view. Drawing on their unique analysis of the more than 2,000 surviving letters of FitzGerald, together with evidence from his scrapbooks, commonplace books and materials from his personal library, they reveal a more convivial yet complex personality than we have been led to suppose."--Bloomsbury Publishing.