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

Victorian Poetry is published by West Virginia University Press, ISSN: 0042-5206