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Edward Fitzgerald

 

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Virgil : Georgics

'Here I am reading Virgil?s delightful Georgics for the first time. They really attune perfectly well with the plains and climate of Naseby. Valpy (whose edition I have) cannot quite follow Virgil?s plough?in its construction at least. But the main acts of agriculture seem to have changed very little, and the alternation of green and corn crops is a good dodge. And while I heard the fellows going out with their horses to plough as I sat at breakfast this morning, I also read? Libra die somnique pares ubi fecerit horas, Et medium luci atque umbris jam dividit orbem, Exercete, viri, tauros, serite hordea campis Usque sub extremum brum? intractabilis imbrem. One loves Virgil somehow.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Arthur Penryn Stanley : Life of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of Rugby

As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who was a noble fellow; and the letters of Burke, which do not add to, or detract from, what I knew and liked in him before. I am meditating to begin Thucydides one day; perhaps this winter. . .

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Edmund Burke : Letters

As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who was a noble fellow; and the letters of Burke, which do not add to, or detract from, what I knew and liked in him before. I am meditating to begin Thucydides one day; perhaps this winter. . .

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Virgil : 

I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary. What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics!

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Juvenal : 

I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary. What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics!

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

John Wesley : Journal

I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary. What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics!

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Horace Walpole : Letters

I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary. What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics!

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Samuel Richardson : Clarissa

Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, Christmas 1862: 'I have, as usual, nothing to tell of myself: boating all the summer and reading Clarissa Harlowe since; you and I used to talk of the book more than 20 years ago. I believe I am better read in it than almost any one in existence now. No wonder, for it is almost intolerably tedious and absurd.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Dampier : Voyages

Edward Fitzgerald to Emily Tennyson [1862], in reponse to request for information on fishing and fishermen (as background for writing of Alfred Tennyson's), and after various observations on the topic: 'Oh dear! this is very learned, very useless, I dare say. But you ask me and I tell my best. I have been almost tempted to write you out some morsels of Dampier's Voyages which I copied out for myself: so fine as they are in their way I think, but they would be no use unless A. T. fell upon them by chance: for, of all horses, Pegasus least likes to drink.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Alfred Tennyson : Gareth

Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson (1873): 'I have a word to say about "Gareth" which your publisher sent me as "from the author." I don't think it is mere perversity that makes me like it better than all its predecessors, save and except (of course) the old "Morte." The subject, the young knight who can endure and conquer, interests me more than all the heroines of the 1st volume.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Alfred Tennyson : Queen Mary

Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 9 July 1875: 'I had bought your Play a few days before your gift-copy reached me. I have not had sufficient time to digest either you see, though I have read through twice.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

 : 'old Spanish Romances'

Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 30 December 1876: 'Here I have a book of old Spanish Romances familiar to Don Quixote and Sancho. I shall write you out a [italics]rather[end italics] pretty one which I read yesterday [...] There is not much in it, if you take the time to construe; but I like the lady with her old husband partner, managing to address the young Count, perhaps as she passes him in the dance, bit by bit as the figure brings her round again.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

  

Hayley : Life of Romney

'Of "Romney's Remorse" [Tennyson] notes: "Edward Fitzgerald said in a letter, 'I read Hayley's Life of Romney the other day: Romney wanted but education and reading to make him a very fine painter; but his ideal was not high and fine [comments further on personal life and qualities of Romney]'".

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald      Print: Book

 

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