Eliot possessed : T.S. Eliot and FitzGerald's Rubáiyát
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Eliot possessed : T.S. Eliot and FitzGerald's Rubáiyát
（The Gotham library of the New York University Press）
New York University Press, c1989
- : cloth
- : pbk.
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Includes index
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At first glance few literary lineages might seem less likely than one connecting the foremost experimental poet of the 20th century to Victorian poet/translator Edward FitzGerald's "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam". But the controversy surrounding the life and work of FitzGerald was approaching its peak around the time a young and intellectually fervid Thomas Stearns Eliot first found the "Rubaiyat" "lying about", and his exposure to it resulted in a profound inward change. Years later Eliot observed in his Norton lectures that the effect of his first reading of the work was "like a sudden conversion - the world appeared anew, painted with bright, delicious and painful colours". "Eliot Possessed" reminds us of this important lineage.
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