Edward FitzGerald

MMD was related to several notable literary and cultural figures, including her cousin Elizabeth (Liza) Lehmann , a distinguished vocalist and composer best known for her song cycle In a Persian Garden. The song...

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that although she worked not from original Persian sources but from prose intermediaries some of her versions were favourably compared with those of Edward FitzGerald .

Its very title establishes that for her a topic that matters is the place of poetry in present-day culture, and that her approach to this topic is satirical in the manner of Pope , making...

AMC published articles on literature and the arts as well as on science: in 1894, for example, she reviewed the letters of Edward FitzGerald for the Edinburgh Review. She also produced one larger work...

This was intended to test the waters for an authoritative, scholarly edition with her own translation, on which JEC had been working for years. (Her initials served to conceal her gender.) She felt sure she...

The article contains two linked analyses, of FitzGerald as a translator and of Omar as a thinker. She calls the former's rendering a poem on Omar, rather than a translation of his work, and points...

MB uses an epigraph from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (in Edward FitzGerald 's free translation): The Bird of Time has but a little way / To flutter—and the bird is on the wing.