Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry

Reza Taher-Kermani is Assistant Professor of 18th and 19th Century British Literature at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of many articles, including “The Rubáiyát: A Labour of Love”, Victoriographies, 7/1. 2017: Edinburgh University Press and “Why the Oxus? On the Majestic River of Arnold’s ‘Sohrab and Rustum’”, The Review of English Studies, 69/289. 2018: Oxford University Press.

• Introduction1. Persia in the West 2. Persia and Nineteenth-Century English Poetry3. ‘Sohrab and Rustum’4. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám5. Ferishtah’s FanciesEpilogueBibliographyIndex

With unusually broad erudition in both Persian and English literary traditions, Reza Taher-Kermani examines in detail how the two cultural worlds interact. What he gives us amounts to a meditation on the nature of literary influence.