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Victorian Poetry, vol. 46 (2008), Nr. 1
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.

Contents:
Eric Gray: FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat, in and out of time
Anna Jane Barton: Letters, scraps of manuscript, and printed poems: the correspondence of Edward FitzGerald and Alfred Tennyson
AnnMarie Drury: Accident, orientalism, and Edward FitzGerald as translator
Giuseppe Albano: The benefits of reading the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as pastoral
Herbert F. Tucker: Metaphor, translation, and autoekphrasis in FitzGerald's Rubaiyat
Daniel Karlin: Editing the Rubaiyat: two case-studies and a prospectus
Appendix: two early reviews of the Rubaiyat

Full table of contents on Project MUSE