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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
In Our Time
The Poems of a Young Man
It's a mixture o ora, victorian frustration, perhaps, and this alure of the east. After fitzgerald's death, itt is quite important to say that while he was alive, he did not collude in, or try himself to to promote the poem in that way. He actually objected even when bernard quarritce that the publisher wanted to put little a page decoration, lit oriental border round the pages. The idea of an illustrated edition, particularly with h s, andc wha would have horrified him, absolutely horrified him. So it went into this immense favour dit. And then it fell from favour quite drama ly around won 19 50
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