Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . UN Edward Fitzgerald ciate the prim and formal muse of Crabbe, inwhose grandsons house he died. His second printed work was the Polonius,already referred to, which appeared in 1852. Itexemplifies his favourite reading, being a collectionof extracts, sometimes short proverbial phrases,sometimes longer pieces of characterization orreflection, arranged under abstract headings. Heoccasionally quotes Dr. Johnson, for whom heentertained sincere admiration; but the ponder-ous and artificial fabric of Johnsonese did notplease him like the lang
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . UN Edward Fitzgerald ciate the prim and formal muse of Crabbe, inwhose grandsons house he died. His second printed work was the Polonius,already referred to, which appeared in 1852. Itexemplifies his favourite reading, being a collectionof extracts, sometimes short proverbial phrases,sometimes longer pieces of characterization orreflection, arranged under abstract headings. Heoccasionally quotes Dr. Johnson, for whom heentertained sincere admiration; but the ponder-ous and artificial fabric of Johnsonese did notplease him like the language of Bacon, Fuller,Sir Thomas Browne, Coleridge, whom he citesfrequently. A disproportionate abundance of wisewords was drawn from Carlyle ; his original views,his forcible sense, and the friendship with whichFitzgerald regarded him, having apparently blindedthe latter to the ungainly style and ungracefulmannerisms of the Chelsea sage. (It was Thack-.
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