The poet Edward Fitzgerald died at the age of 74. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
A nineteenth-century British author and poet, he is best known for his English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He also famously published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
He married Lucy Barton in 1856, upon the death bed request of her poet father; however, the two quickly separated.
Quotes
"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
"Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass’d the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.
"Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.
"Taste is the feminine of genius.
"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.