Edward Fitzgerald
1809 - 1883

English Scholar and poet. His first work of note was a biography of the Quaker poet Bernard Barton (1849). Euphranor, a dialogue on Youth (1851) was his next published work (a commentary on English Education). He went on to produce a book of aphorisms, Polonius: a collection of wise saws and Modern Instances. (1852), and a series of translations of plays by Calderon, Aeschylus and Sophocles.

His interest in Persian poetry lead him to produce his most important work, his free translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859).