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But in ,86o Rossetti discovered it, and Swinburne and See also: Lord Houghton quickly followed
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The Rubaiyat became slowly famous, but it was not until 1868 that See also: FitzGerald was encouraged to See also: print a second and greatly revised edition
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Meanwhile he had produced in 1865 a version of the See also: Agamemnon, and two more plays from Calderon
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In 188o–1881 he issued privately See also: translations of the two Oedipus tragedies; his last publication was Readings in See also: Crabbe, 1882
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He See also: left in See also: manuscript a version of Attar's Mantic- Uttair under the title of The See also: Bird Parliament
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From 1861 onwards FitzGerald's greatest See also: interest had centred in the See also: sea
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In See also: June 1863 he bought a yacht, The See also: Scandal," and in 1867 he became See also: part-owner of a herring-lugger, the " Meum and Tuum." For some years, till 1871, he spent the months from June to See also: October mainly in " knocking about somewhere outside of See also: Lowestoft." In this way, and among his books and See also: flowers, FitzGerald gradually became an old See also: man
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On the 14th of June 1883 he passed away painlessly in his sleep
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He was " an idle See also: fellow, but one whose friendships were more like loves." In 1885 a stimulus was given to the steady advance of his fame by the fact that See also: Tennyson dedicated his Tiresias to FitzGerald's memory, in some touching reminiscent verses to Old Fitz." This was but the See also: signal for that universal appreciation of See also: Omar Khayyam in his See also: English dress, which has been one of the curious See also: literary phenomena of See also: recent years
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The melody of FitzGerald's verse is so exquisite, the thoughts he rearranges and strings together are so profound, and the general atmosphere of See also: poetry in which he steeps his version is so pure, that no surprise need be expressed at the universal favour which the poem has met with among critical readers
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But its popularity has gone much deeper than this; it is now probably better known to the general public than any single poem of its class published since the See also: year 186o, and its admirers have almost transcended See also: common sense in the extravagance of their laudation
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FitzGerald married, in See also: middle See also: life, See also: Lucy, the daughter of See also: Bernard See also: Barton, the Quaker poet
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Of FitzGerald as a man practically nothing was known until, in 1889, Mr W
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Aldis See also: Wright, his intimate friend and literary executor, published his Letters and Literary Remains in three volumes
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This was followed in 1895 by the Letters to Fanny Kemble
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These letters constitute a fresh bid for immortality, since they discovered that FitzGerald was a witty, picturesque and sympathetic letter-writer
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One of the most unobtrusive authors who ever lived, FitzGerald has, nevertheless, by the force of his extraordinary individuality, gradually influenced the whole face of English belles-lettres, in particular as it was manifested between 1890 and 1900
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The See also: Works of See also: Edward FitzGerald appeared in 1887
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See also a See also: chronological See also: list of FitzGerald's works (See also: Caxton See also: Club, See also: Chicago, 1899) ; notes for a bibliography by Col
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Prideaux, in Notes and Queries (9th series, vol. vi.), published separately in 1901; Letters and Literary Remains (ed
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W . Aldis Wright, 1902–1903) ; and the Life of Edward FitzGerald, by See also: Thomas Wright (1904), which contains a bibliography (vol. ii. pp
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241-243) and a list of
See also: sources (vol. i. pp. xvi.-xvii.)
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The See also: volume on FitzGerald in the " English Men of Letters " series is by A
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See also: Benson
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The Fitz-Gerald centenary was celebrated in See also: March 1909
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See the Centenary Celebrations Souvenir (
See also: Ipswich, 1909) and The Times for March 25, 1909
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