OF PERSIAN POETRY
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Rustum \ve are doing one of the greatest of the
ing Sohrab and
homage
to
world's
poets.
can
we say
been
said
of
And Omar? What Omar that has not already by some
better
of his innumerable worshippers
Omar
just
now
?
for
a cult, and seems
is
be the only religion of many. How far he owes that position to Fitzto
Gerald we
may
discuss later, but
it
be remarked here that there
is
may
no Calderon cult or ^schylus cult analogous to that of Omar, and yet FitzGerald translated both Calderon
We may surely, then, Omar with much of the qualities
and ^schylus. credit
which have made his Rubdiydt the favourite
remains
of
so
many
So our
thinkers. :
Why
poets
original
should
and
puzzle
these
two
Persian poets be the only ones that have acclimatised themselves in Eng-
land
?
Can we
see here
some
subtle
sym-