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The Exquisite Amateur: FitzGerald, the Rubáiyát, and Queer Dilettantism

The Exquisite Amateur: FitzGerald, the Rubáiyát, and Queer Dilettantism The Exquisite Amateur: FitzGerald, the Rubáiyát , and Queer Dilettantism BENJAMIN HUDSON “I believe I love poetry almost as much as ever: but then I have been su - f fered to doze all these years in the enjoyment of old childish habits and sympathies, without being called on to more active and serious duties of life. I have not put away childis th h ings, though a man. But, at the same time, this visionary inactivity is better than the mischievous activity of so many I see about me.” — Edward FitzGerald to John Allen, March 9, 1850 I. The Amateur Rubáiyát Robert Graves, in promoting his own “ t a h u en t ic” translation of Omar Kha áy m y’s quatrains in 1968, slandered Edward FitzGerald, the poem’s Victorian tr -ansla tor and popu lar izer, as a “dilettante faggot trying to pretend he was a sch olar.” Graves believed he had access to an earlier manuscript of the quatrains, though literary scholars soon revealed he had instead been taken in by a forg-ery or chestrated by the Sufi mystic Omar Al S i-hah. To make matters worse for Graves, the forged manuscript was itself cultivated http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Victorian Poetry West Virginia University Press

The Exquisite Amateur: FitzGerald, the Rubáiyát, and Queer Dilettantism

Hudson, Benjamin
Victorian Poetry , Volume 54 (2) – Sep 8, 2016
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The Exquisite Amateur: FitzGerald, the Rubáiyát , and Queer Dilettantism BENJAMIN HUDSON “I believe I love poetry almost as much as ever: but then I have been su - f fered to doze all these years in the enjoyment of old childish habits and sympathies, without being called on to more active and serious duties of life. I have not put away childis th h ings, though a man. But, at the same time, this visionary inactivity is better than the mischievous activity of so many I see about me.” — Edward FitzGerald to John Allen, March 9, 1850 I. The Amateur Rubáiyát Robert Graves, in promoting his own “ t a h u en t ic” translation of Omar Kha áy m y’s quatrains in 1968, slandered Edward FitzGerald, the poem’s Victorian tr -ansla tor and popu lar izer, as a “dilettante faggot trying to pretend he was a sch olar.” Graves believed he had access to an earlier manuscript of the quatrains, though literary scholars soon revealed he had instead been taken in by a forg-ery or chestrated by the Sufi mystic Omar Al S i-hah. To make matters worse for Graves, the forged manuscript was itself cultivated

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