Letters of Edward Fitzgerald

Volume 2 of the collected letters of Edward Fitzgerald offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and mind of this celebrated 19th-century writer. Known primarily for his translation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", Fitzgerald was also a prolific correspondent, and his letters provide invaluable insights into his personal life, literary opinions, and the social milieu of his time.

This collection showcases Fitzgerald's wit, erudition, and often eccentric perspectives on literature, art, and contemporary events. Readers will discover a rich tapestry of thoughts and observations, making this volume an essential resource for scholars and enthusiasts of Victorian literature and culture. The letters reveal the intimate thoughts and experiences of a prominent literary figure, ensuring its enduring appeal.

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Letters of Edward Fitzgerald

Volume 2 of the collected letters of Edward Fitzgerald offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and mind of this celebrated 19th-century writer. Known primarily for his translation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", Fitzgerald was also a prolific correspondent, and his letters provide invaluable insights into his personal life, literary opinions, and the social milieu of his time.

This collection showcases Fitzgerald's wit, erudition, and often eccentric perspectives on literature, art, and contemporary events. Readers will discover a rich tapestry of thoughts and observations, making this volume an essential resource for scholars and enthusiasts of Victorian literature and culture. The letters reveal the intimate thoughts and experiences of a prominent literary figure, ensuring its enduring appeal.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Letters of Edward Fitzgerald

Letters of Edward Fitzgerald

by Edward Fitzgerald
Letters of Edward Fitzgerald

Letters of Edward Fitzgerald

by Edward Fitzgerald

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Volume 2 of the collected letters of Edward Fitzgerald offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and mind of this celebrated 19th-century writer. Known primarily for his translation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", Fitzgerald was also a prolific correspondent, and his letters provide invaluable insights into his personal life, literary opinions, and the social milieu of his time.

This collection showcases Fitzgerald's wit, erudition, and often eccentric perspectives on literature, art, and contemporary events. Readers will discover a rich tapestry of thoughts and observations, making this volume an essential resource for scholars and enthusiasts of Victorian literature and culture. The letters reveal the intimate thoughts and experiences of a prominent literary figure, ensuring its enduring appeal.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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ISBN-13: 9781438594606
Publisher: Book Jungle
Publication date: 04/22/2010
Pages: 236
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.50(d)

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AGAMEMNON A TRAGEDY TAKEN FROM AESCHYLUS This Version or Per-version of jEschylus was originally printed to be given away among Friends, who either knew nothing of the Original, or would be disposed to excuse the liberties taken with it by an unworthy hand. PREFACE All the Choruses in this Tragedy call for a more lyrical Interpreter than myself. But even I might have done better with the first, by mingling fragments of the so oft-told Story with such dark and ill-ominous presage as would accumulate as Time went on. So much for the matter. As for the manner ; I think that some such form as Tennyson has originated in his version of the battle of Brunan- burh might well be adopted in this case, as in many other of Eschylus' Choruses such as in the Persae, the Seven against Thebes, and the Eumenides the question being whether such a trochaic gallop may not over-ride the Iambic Blank Verse Dialogue that follows it. I suppose that a literal version of this play, if possible, would scarce be intelligible. Even were the dialogue always clear, the lyric Choruses, which make up so large a part, are so dark and abrupt in themselves, and therefore so much the more mangled and tormented by copyist and commentator, that the most conscientioustranslator must not only jump at a meaning, but must bridge over a chasm ; especially if he determine to complete the antiphony of Strophe and Antistrophe in English verse. Thus, encumbered with forms which sometimes, I think, hang heavy on schylus himself1: struggling with indistinct meanings, obscure allusions, and even with puns which some have tried to reproduce in English ; this grand play, which to the scholar and the poet, lives, breathes, andmoves in the dead language, has hitherto seemed to me to drag and stifle under co...

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