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title: "The Illustrated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Special Edition"
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# The Illustrated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Special Edition

**Brand:** omar khayyamedmund dulacedward j. fitzgeralddon diego
**Price:** € 28.82
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- **What is this?** The Illustrated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Special Edition by omar khayyamedmund dulacedward j. fitzgeralddon diego
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Khayyam, Fitzgerald and Dulac hit it out of the park
*by P***S on August 13, 2014*

You can get The Rubaiyat almost anywhere, even print it out from online, however this edition is well worth the money. The colorful illustrations by Edmund Dulac alone are worth the price of admission and any student of art ought to have them in their reference library. The format is for 5 (quatrains) stanzas per page with one illustration on the opposite page. For those who have never read the Rubaiyat, this is an excellent introduction as the images flesh out the poetry. It would be best read for the first time in a quiet evening with a glass of red wine. Later, one can track down some of the references that one is unfamiliar with.This is my second purchase of The Rubaiyat, the first came around 4 decades ago. It was the Fitzgerald version too, but illustrated by Edmund Sullivan. I still have it and have read over it many times. The black and white illustrations are essentially line drawings of every quatrain and of quite a different nature that the Edmund Dulac full color illustrations. Dulac expresses one lighter, brighter side of Omar Khayyam, the side which wishes to enjoy the world of the present. Sullivan expresses Khayyam's darker vision, that of the utter hopelessness of any afterlife and temporary nature of life itself.I will always keep both editions in my library as the counterpoised illustrations render the Rubaiyat into almost two separate poems. I suggest that for your more complete experience that you do the same.

### ⭐ Edmund Dulac illustrations for the Rubáiyåt
*by R***D on April 6, 2024*

I bought this book to see Edmund Dulac's illustrations, which I didn't know about. They're very poorly reproduced in this edition (originally published 1909), though well enough to see that they aren't very interesting works by this very prolific early 1900s book illustrator, probably the most illustrious of a number of notable illustrators from this golden age of modern color book illustration.The text is that of the 5th and final edition of Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát, the well known "rendering" (not really a translation) of the middle Persian of Omar Kháyyám, but a classic English poem on its own merits. It's set in a quite elegant italic font, which however seems to lack the accent marks necessary to read FitzGerald's work out loud, and printed in an awful blue color that fades out to pale purple at the bottom of each page.I was quite disappointed by this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars
*by K***M on February 21, 2018*

An amazing little book. Beautiful words and images!

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