With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward FitzGerald

by Robert Bernard Martin

Overview

'[Edward] FitzGerald (1809-1883) won a small piece of immortality with his translation-adaptation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam... but in every other way he seems to have successfully avoided fulfilment. A godless Epicurean, he lived in permanent virginity, never pressing his homosexual desires beyond a number of sentimental crushes... The son of a fabulously rich heiress, he rarely travelled... Though he had many friends he also had a perverse penchant for alienating them... [Robert Bernard] Martin argues that FitzGerald's greatest achievement, outside the Rubaiyat, is his letters, which certainly have grace and a wistful charm.' Kirkus Review
'There is [] something sad about the life of this loving and never quite satisfied man... Mr. Martin's biography is splendid reading, and it is a real credit to it that he makes us feel the sadness.' New York Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571300501
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	02/21/2013
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	11 MB
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Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Robert Bernard Martin
Tennyson, the Unquiet Heart in 1980 and A Very Private Life in 1991.