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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Notes
The English Romantic Background
1: English Romantics and Persian Sufi Poets: A Wellspring of Inspiration for American Transcendentalists
Platonism in Romantic and Sufi Poetry
Comparative Persian–English Poetics: Archetypal and Anagogic Criticism
Anagogic Correspondences Between Sufi and Romantic Poetry
Carpe Diem
Nunc Aeternum
Mundus Imaginalis
Annihilation, Mystical Death, Fana’
The Unity of Religions
Conclusion: Platonic Poetics and the Science of Anagogic Criticism
Notes
The Master: Emerson and Sufism
2: The Chronological Development of Emerson’s Interest in Persian Mysticism
Notes
3: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Muslim Orient
Notes
4: Emerson and Aspects of Sa‘di’s Reception in Nineteenth-Century America
Notes
5: Emerson on Hafiz and Sa‘di: The Narrative of Love and Wine
Emerson’s Encounter with Persian Literature
Emerson’s Writings on Persian Mystical Literature
Emerson’s Translations from Hafiz
Echoes of Hafiz’s Poems in Emerson’s Verse
Notes
The Disciple: Walt Whitman
6: Whitman and Hafiz: Expressions of Universal Love and Tolerance
Notes
7: Walt Whitman and Sufism: Towards “A Persian Lesson”
A Song of Myself
Whitman and Rumi
Notes
The Initiates: Other American Authors
8: Literary “Masters” in the Literature of Thomas Lake Harris, Lawrence Oliphant, and Paschal Beverly Randolph
Thomas Lake Harris
Laurence Oliphant
Paschal Beverly Randolph
Conclusions
Notes
9: American Transcendentalists’ Interpretations of Sufism: Thoreau, Whitman, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn
Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn
Notes
10: The Persians of Concord
Notes
11: Omarian Poets of America
The Omar Khayyam Club of America
The Omarian Poets of New England
The Ruba‘iyyat of Mark Twain
The Eliots
Other American Literary Movements and Figures
Notes
12: “Bond Slave to FitzGerald’s Omar”: Mark Twain and The Rubáiyát
Notes
13: Mark Twain’s Ruba‘iyyat: AGE–A Rubáiyát
Note
Glossary
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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