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Edward Fitzgerald

Male : Poet & Translator. Married Lucy Barton in 1856 (separated). He is buried at Boulge (Suffolk) churchyard
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Bredfield, Nr Woodbridge, Suffolk

Date of Birth : 1809 Date of Death : 1883 Age : 74

Pseudonyms : Born Edward Purcell (changed his name 1818)

Education : King Edward VI GS, Bury St Edmunds & Trinity College, Cambridge
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur : The Astronomer-Poet of Persia
(1859 for the Author through Bernard Quaritch)
[Only 250 were printed, but Quaritch couldn't sell these at 1/- so he put them outside of his shop
as remainders at 1d each, where they were bought by Rossetti and his friends]

A copy sold at auction in 2004 for £9400
1868
(2nd Ed)
1872 Quaritch. 3rd Ed
1879 Quaritch
(1884 Boston) - Elihu Vedder
(ed N H Dole) (1898) - 2 vols
(1909 Hodder & Stoughton) - 750 signed by Edmund Dulac
Offered unsigned at £350 in 1998
(1909 Harrap) - 525. Willy Pogany
Offered at £250 in 1998
(ed F H Evans) (1914) - variorum text
(1914 Foulis) - Frank Brangwyn
(1922 Bodley Head) - Ann Harriet Fish
Offered at £485 in 1997
(1930 Harrap) - Willy Pogany

1851-1880
Euphranor : A Dialogue on Youth
(1851 Wm Pickering, London) - 1st Book
Polonius : A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances
(1852)
Six Dramas of Calderon
(freely translated) (1853 Wm Pickering)
Salaman and Absal : An Allegory translated from the Persian of Jami
(1856 Parker)
(Trans) The Mighty Magician and Such Stuff as Dreams are Made of, by Calderon (1865)
(Trans) Agamemnon : A Tragedy Taken from Aeschylus (1876 Bernard Quaritch, London) - 250
Works
(1877 Houghton Mifflin, Boston/Quaritch, London) - 2 vols
(Ed) Readings in Crabbe's Tales of the Hall (1879)
The Downfall & Death of King Oedipus : A Drama by Sophocles
(1880-1 Billing, Guildford) - Anon

1881-1900
Readings in Crabbe 'Tales of the Hall'
(1882 Quaritch)
The Works
(1887 Quaritch, London / Houghton Mifflin, Boston) - 2 vols
Letters and Literary Remains
(ed W Aldis Wright) (1889) - 3 vols
Occasional Verses
(1891)

1901-1920
Polonius, A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances
(1901 Mosher, Maine)
- 50 on Japan vellum. 450
The Valiorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical & Prose Writings
(1902 Doubleday) - 400
(1902-3) - 7 vols. edited by George Bentham
Letters and Literary Remains
(ed W Aldis Wright) (1902-3 Macmillan) - enlarged ed. 7 vols. 775
Offered in 1999 for £575
Variorum Edition of the Writings
(ed George Bentham) (1903 NY) - 7 vols
Eight Dramas of Calderon
(1906 Macmillan)
Dictionary of Madame de Sevigne
(1914 Macmillan) - 2 vols

After 1921
Some New Letters
(to Bernard Barton) (1923 Williams & Norgate)
Letters to Bernard Quaritch 1853 to 1883
(1926 Quaritch, London)
A Fitzgerald Friendship, being hitherto Unpublished Letters from EF to William Bodham Donne
(1932 Wm E Rudge, NY) (1932 Faber) - 750
Letters
(ed J M Cohen) (1960)
Selected Works
(ed Joanna Richardson) (1962)
Fitzgerald to His friends
(1977) - Edited by Alethea Hayter
The Letters 1830-1850
(1980 Princeton UP) - 4 vols

READING
John Glyde : The Life of Edward Fitzgerald
(1900 Pearson, London)
W F Prideaux : Notes for a Bibliography of Fitzgerald
(1901 London)
Thomas Wright : The Life of Fitzgerald
(1904 Grant Richards) - 2 vols
A C Benson : Edward Fitzgerald
(1905)
A G Potter : A Bibliography of the Rubaiyat of Moar Khayyam
(1929)
Alfred M Terhune : The Life of Fitzgerald
(1947 New Haven)
Joanna Richardson : Edward Fitzgerald
(1960)

Related Writers

Dictionary
Edmund Dulac
Omar Khayyam
Willy Pogany
Suffolk


See also

Foulis, T N
Golden Cockerel Press
Thomas Moore