... in twentieth-century America in literary and spiritual commentary on texts, including texts themselves more and less usually understood as Victorian, such as Edward FitzGerald’s 1859 translation of the Rubaiyat . werner_winter@wheatoncollege.edu mwinick@hds.harvard.edu Copyright © 2022...

.... $7.50. Shaw, Bernard. Back to Methuselah : A Metabiological Pentateuch. New York and London : Oxford University Press, The World’s Classics, Galaxy Edition, I, 1947. Pp. lxxiv -I- 261. $1.50. Terhune, Alfred McKinley. The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Translator of The Rubaiyat...

... of Shakespeare and sideshows were less common by the 1870s than they had been, but they remained a feature of Riley’s broadly appealing work through the turn of the century, as in his Rubaiyat of Doc Sij..s, a piece that both parodies Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as “hifalutin” and yet assumes...