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Victorian Poetry 17: Some Meredith, then we begin The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Published: March 23, 2023, 5:20 p.m.

We talk about George Meredith for a while -- "Lucifer in Starlight" (and the 1882 transit of Venus) and his relation to his wife, Mary Ellen Nicolls, and the relationship of both of them to Henry Wallis who'd painted Meredith as Chatterton. \xa0We plan to return to\xa0Modern Love, but first we begin reading through Fitzgerald's\xa0Rub\xe1iy\xe1t of Omar Khayyam, after quoting him on its form and its moral: "Drink--for the Moon will often come round to look for us in this Garden and find us not."