Rubaiyat is the plural of the Persian word meaning “a poem of four lines.”
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur is a poem composed of such quatrains.
The twelfth-century Persian poem was translated freely into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859.
Longinus’s critical treatise On the Sublime was not published in Europe until 1554. The first-century essay was then translated into several languages and gained wide prominence, eventually influencing the poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in Literature in 1950, for Annie Allen.
Henry Fielding (1707-54) called the novel a “comic-epic poem in prose”, in the preface to his 1742 novel Joseph Andrews.
The title of Carlyle’s 1833-34 satire on German philosophy Sartor Resartus means “the tailor retailored” in Latin. It comments on the work of the fictitious Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, philosopher of clothes.
The satire of America, called The Confidence Man, was the last work of Herman Melville published in his lifetime. It was published in 1857 to little public notice. Melville died in 1891.
The first national copyright act was passed in England in 1709.