Edward FitzGerald

Poet, Author

1809 – 1883

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Who was Edward FitzGerald?

Edward FitzGerald was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The writing of his name as both FitzGerald and Fitzgerald is seen. The use here of FitzGerald conforms with that of his own publications, anthologies such as Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, and most reference books up until about the 1960s.

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Born
Mar 31, 1809
Bredfield House
Also known as
  • Edward Purcell
Parents
Spouses
Ethnicity
  • English people
Nationality
  • England
Profession
Education
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
    (1826 - )
Lived in
  • Suffolk
  • Paris
  • Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Died
Jun 14, 1883
Merton, Norfolk

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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