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...Spanish Playwright Calderon (which the Athenaeum considered "quite unnecessary to treat as a serious work"). Then a friend introduced him to what FitzGerald dubbed "the Sweetmeat, Childish, Oriental World" of the Persian language. Three years later, he braved the critics with a rendition of the Persian poem, Salaman and Absal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Translator of the Rubaiyat | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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