Persian Literary Influence on English Literature: With Special Reference to the Nineteenth Century. Costa Mesa, Mazda Publishers, 2005, xiii + 254 p. (Bibliotheca Iranica, Literature Series, 8)

This work, begun as a Cambridge dissertation under A. J. Arberry, surveys the English encounter and literary adaptation of Persia and Persian literature through the 19th century, highlighting the specifically Persianate contribution to orientalism in Europe. This 2nd edition, with new preface (first published Calcutta, Iran Society, 1983), makes the work accessible to a wider audience, and fills a needed gap by drawing together in one place information that had been scattered in several solid..