FitzOmar
Doris Alexander. "FitzOmar: Live Eagle". In: Creating Literature out of life. The making of four masterpieces: Death in Venice, Treasure Island, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, War and Peace. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. pp. 45-84
Creating Literature Out of Life examines four very dissimilar masterpieces and their authors in search of evidence that will answer some of the many questions in the great mystery of creativity. Crossing boundaries of period, nation, and genre, the study looks into the "why" and "how" of the creation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Edward FitzGerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace. (From publisher's website)
Chapter 3
FitzOmar: Live Eagle 45
The Life 45
The Catastrophe 55
The Work 65
Aftermath 76