Francis Gavin wrote:
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> The whole men in shirtsleeves bit? He lifted it from Fitzgerald, lock stock
> and barrel. No not the Minnesotan w/the besotted wife, but the guy
> translated the Rubaiyat. Check it out.
Well I looked in Southam for his notes and didn't see FitzGerald mentioned
and then I looked at Ricks notes on Prufrock's Pervigilium (pp. 176-98 of
"Inventions of the March Hare") and didn't see it there either.
What of FitzGerald show we look to? The Rubaiyat translation?
Regards,
Rick Parker
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