ABOUT EDWARD FITZGERALD
A nineteenth-century British author and poet, he is best known for his English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam . He also famously published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
He was born into wealth near Suffolk, England, and he also lived in France for a time. He published one of his first translations, Six Dramas of Calderon, in 1853.
In 1895, FitzGerald's close friend, W. Aldis Wright, published a three-volume collection of FitzGerald's letters.
He married Lucy Barton in 1856, upon the death bed request of her poet father; however, the two quickly separated.
He was a friend of Alfred Lord Tennyson .
