A Chronological List of the More Important Issues of Edward Fitzgerald's Version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and of Other Books, Written, Translated, Edited Or Owned by Him: With Portraits, Autograph Letters, Etc (Classic Reprint)

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Omar Khayyam's name, and that sadly misquoted. Mr. Bartlett not only tooh a foot out of the second line, which he added to the third, but destroyed the sense of the stanza into the bargain. In the ninth edition (1896) of the quotations, however, Mr. Bartlett atoned in a measure for this lapse from his usual precision by quoting the stanza correctly and adding four and a half others. (he could have further enriched his useful booh by putting in fitzgerald's aphorism, Taste is the Feminine of Geni.us Today, if a new edition of familiar quotations were called for, it would hardly be safe to omit a quatrain of the poem, which, in every conceivable variety of form, has been, or is being, put out under American imprintsfl' It has become the fashion for professional and business men to point their familiar letters with quotations from it; while the youth ful clerk shortens his morning jaunt to his ofice by repeating his favorite stanzas; and even the gutter-mer chant carries a copy in his pochet.

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