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Title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : A Personal Selectionfrom Five Editions of Edward Fit by Cecile Mactaggart ISBN: 0-9699121-1-0 Publisher: Cemac Enterprises Ltd Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Book to be Treasured
Comment:
The author begins with this tribute by James Russell Lowell:

  These pearls of thought in Persian Gulfs were bred,
  Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
  The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,
  Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

To which I feel inspired to add the following:

  These pearls that Omar found and Edward threaded
  Cecile MacTaggart, to a Scotsman wedded,
  Took, some from one string and some from another,
  And in a setting splendidly imbedded.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Vision of Marvelous Glory
Comment: 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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