biography
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| lived:
| (1809–83)
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| biography:
| Scholar and poet, born near Woodbridge, Suffolk, E England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he developed close literary friendships with Thackeray, Carlyle, and Tennyson (who dedicated his poem Tiresias to him). He published several works anonymously, including translations of six plays by Calderón in 1853. He is best known for his free poetic translation of quatrains from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859). |
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