id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-159 Edward FitzGerald (poet) - Wikipedia .html text/html 3824 420 71 Later, FitzGerald became close to a fisherman named Joseph Fletcher, with whom he had bought a herring boat.[6] While it appears there are no contemporary sources on the matter, a number of present-day academics and journalists believe FitzGerald to have been a homosexual.[12] With Professor Daniel Karlin writing in his introduction to the 2009 edition of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám that "His [FitzGerald] homoerotic feelings (...) were probably unclear to him, at least in the form conveyed by our word 'gay'",[13] it is unclear whether FitzGerald himself ever identified himself as a homosexual or acknowledged himself to be one. ^ Christopher Decker, ed., "Introduction: Postscript" Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: a critical edition University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, page xlv, 1997. A comprehensive four-volume collection of The Letters of Edward FitzGerald, edited by Syracuse University English professor Alfred M. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article FitzGerald, Edward. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-159.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-159.txt