Excerpt from Edward Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam: An Essay and a Bibliography See Appendix I.tuition, and when Cowell left England for India F itzgerald found his studies to be a bond of union between England and that somewhere East of Suez, where his friend lived for a time. Fitzgerald's interest in the language progressed, and in I 8 54 he made his appearance as a translator of Persian, with an English rendering of Jami's Sala'ma'n and Absa'l. But not till 1857 is there any mention in his letters of the subject of this essay when he writes to Cowell, Hafiz and Old Omar Khayyam ring like true metal. The philoso phy of the latter is, alas! One that never fails in this world. This is the first intimation we have of Edward fitzgerald's interest in that Persian flower which he eventually transplanted from its native soil to bloom for ever in the garden of English literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.