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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. 1959 1st edition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Better a live Sparrow than a stuffed Eagle.’ Edward FitzGerald was writing from Beccles on 27 April 1859 to his friend Edward Byles Cowell in remote Calcutta-Cowell who had taught him Persian though a man so many years younger and to whom he was now apologizing for what he had made of Omar Khayy?m. The Rub?iy?t had been out a month; it was on FitzGerald’s fiftieth birthday that a clerk in the British Museum stamped the copy received under the provisions of the Copyright Act. But it was very much more than a sparrow that FitzGerald had called into being by the ‘Messiah-like breath’ of his poetic inspiration-it was that immortal song which fell upon deaf ears when first modulated but of which Alfred Tennyson wrote in after times: