The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry

A study of the wealth of meanings that 'Persia' - real or imagined - held for Victorian poetry The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated and appropriated. Providing the first systematic index of nineteenth-century poems that were in any way involved with Persia, the book explores its presence across a broad range of works incorporating literary, historical and cultural material. Reza Taher-Kermani is Assistant Professor of World Languages and Literatures at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.