Recently added articles from Victorian Poetry:

FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat, in and out of time.(Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Gray, Erik ... This issue of Victorian Poetry commemorates 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. (1) It is ...

Letters, scraps of manuscript, and printed poems: the correspondence of Edward FitzGerald and Alfred Tennyson.

Mar 22, 2008; Barton, Anna Jane ... "Well, 'My Master,' you need not reply to all this." (1) Edward FitzGerald begins the concluding paragraph of his final letter to Alfred Tennyson by relieving him of any obligation to write back. In so doing he draws the history of their correspondence to an appropriate close ....

Accident, orientalism, and Edward FitzGerald as translator.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Drury, Annmarie ... In the mid 1850s, Edward FitzGerald wrote to Edward Byles Cowell, the friend who tutored him in Persian, about the two men's efforts to translate Persian poetry. FitzGerald had decided that Persian poetry in English should seem Persian still. "I am more & more convinced of the Necessity of ...

The benefits of reading the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as pastoral.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Albano, Giuseppe ... On the publication of J. B. Nicolas' French translations of Omar Khayyam --collected in book form as Les quatrains de Kheyam in 1867, having initially appeared in the Revue de l'Orient, de l'Algerie et des Colonies four years earlier--Edward FitzGerald was provoked into a caustic ...

Metaphor, translation, and autoekphrasis in FitzGerald's Rubaiyat.(Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Tucker, Herbert F. ... Among the many virtues of Christopher Decker's edition of the FitzGerald Rubaiyat is its patient elucidation, not only of the various circumstances surrounding the text's multiple versions, but of what we can infer about the translator's equally various attitude toward his work. (1) ...

Editing the Rubaiyat: two case-studies and a prospectus.(Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008; Karlin, Daniel ... 1. "The little anonymous brown-paper-covered pamphlet" The Variorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward FitzGerald is an enjoyably preposterous example of Edwardian bookmaking--if the latter epithet may be applied to an American product. It was ...

Appendix: two early reviews of the Rubaiyat.(Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2008 ... For many years it was thought that the earliest criticism of the Rubaiyat to appear in print was a review of the second edition, published in the North American Review in 1869, by Charles Eliot Norton. In 1960, however, an earlier review, dating from just six months after the publication ...