‘A restrained but full-blooded eroticism’. Letters from John Buckland Wright to Christopher Sandford, 1937-1939. Edited by Roderick Cave.
In: Matrix (1988) 8 (Winter), pp. 56-79.
Discusses the illustrating history and process of the Golden Cockerel Rubaiyat by Buckland Wright, and shows the erotic character of the illustrations.
The man behind the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. The life and letters of Edward FitzGerald. William H. Martin and Sandra Mason. London; New York; I.B. Tauris, 2016. ISBN 9781784536596. xii, 274 pp.
Summary:
Its lines and verses have become part of the western literary canon and his translation of this most famous of poems has been continuously in print in for almost a century and a half. But just who was Edward FitzGerald? Was he the eccentric recluse that most scholars would have us believe? Is there more to the man than just his famous translation? In The Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam William Martin and Sandra Martin go beyond the standard view. Drawing on their unique analysis of the more than 2,000 surviving letters of FitzGerald, together with evidence from his scrapbooks, commonplace books and materials from his personal library, they reveal a more convivial yet complex personality than we have been led to suppose.”