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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Fitzgerald's Literary Career - It's Not a Professional Career

Fitzgerald never had a job as a writer, nor was he ever published in that sense. He did everything for er and by himself. If you think of the victorian period as a period of increasing professional ation of literature, fitz Fitzgerald actually stands outside that process. It's to that emotional, intellectual kind of knot that we owe the poem cursty black.

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