The Rubaiyat would certainly have been known to Kipling. Burne-Jones (his
uncle) discovered it as a student at Oxford, and it became a work of totemic
significance tot the pre-Raphaelites. Cormell Price (the original of the Head
in Stalky) was at Oxford with Burne-Jones, and was a lifelong friend of both
the Burne-Jones and Kipling families. It is unlikely that the poem did not
percolate down.
Judith Flanders
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On the contrary. For a writer as sensitive as RK to the styles and methods
of others, echoes of other poets seem highly appropriate ! I seem to
remember that the Head mentioned the Rubaiyat to Beetle as a poem not yet
come to its own. I can't think of a relevant modern, though.
All good wishes, John R
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