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A Vision of Marvelous Glory,
By "vanyar" (SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : A Personal Selectionfrom Five Editions of Edward Fit (Paperback)
As an often overly dramatic and imaginative adolescent, I would go about chanting (silently to myself, of course) "I sent my soul into the invisable..." and since, have peruised the editions of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat translations with sometimes thrill and sometimes apathy Now comes this new editor's compilation; this is a volume that will enrich all the senses. It is not just the verses of Omar, it is a fusion of all our artistic expressions. It should be read both silently to oneself and aloud, to oneself and the one you love. The pictures must be studied and drempt about. The book is not for brisk reading, but slowly and repeditively, allowing reality to fade and fantasy and memory to emerge. It is the "gourmet" for the soul.One suggestion: Cecile,(once this book is read she can no lomger be Mrs. MacTaggart) writes her editorialc history at the back of the volume, humbly allowing the history of the Rubaiyat to preceed the verses. I think her tales of the "agony and exstasy" that evollved this edition are so marvelously human; laughter, anger and tears, that they embellish the enjoyment of the reading. Perhaps one should read the last first.
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A Book to be Treasured,
By Richard Brodie (oceanside, ca USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : A Personal Selectionfrom Five Editions of Edward Fit (Paperback)
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : A Personal Selectionfrom Five Editions of Edward Fit by Cecile Mactaggart (Paperback - Dec. 1994)
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