page_title: Sohrab and Rustum
hierarchical_section_title: Sohrab and Rustum
caption_attribution_description: فارسی: «شاهنامه شاه طهماسب، موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران، «سهراب رستم را به زمین می&#8204;کوبدEnglish: Painting of Rostam and Sohrab fighting, from The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
context_page_description: Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes first published in 1853 by Matthew Arnold. The poem retells a famous episode from Ferdowsi's Persian epic Shahnameh relating how the great warrior Rustum unknowingly slew his long-lost son Sohrab in single combat. Arnold, who was unable to read the original, relied on summaries of the story in John Malcolm's History of Persia and Sainte-Beuve's review of a French prose translation of Ferdowsi. In Sohrab and Rustum, Arnold attempted to imitate the "grandeur and rapidity" of Homer's style which he was to discuss in his lectures On Translating Homer. The poem consists of 892 lines of blank verse.
  The poem gave the title and place names to a notable work of children's literature, The Far-Distant Oxus, written by Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock while they were still children themselves.
context_section_description: Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes first published in 1853 by Matthew Arnold. The poem retells a famous episode from Ferdowsi's Persian epic Shahnameh relating how the great warrior Rustum unknowingly slew his long-lost son Sohrab in single combat. Arnold, who was unable to read the original, relied on summaries of the story in John Malcolm's History of Persia and Sainte-Beuve's  review of a French prose translation of Ferdowsi. In Sohrab and Rustum,  Arnold attempted to imitate the "grandeur and rapidity" of Homer's style which he was to discuss in his lectures On Translating Homer (1861). The poem consists of 892 lines of blank verse.
  The poem gave the title and place names to a notable work of children's literature, The Far-Distant Oxus, written by Katharine Hull (1921–1977) and Pamela Whitlock (1920–1982) while they were still children themselves.
caption: Sohrab and Rustum fighting:from "The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp" (circa 1522)
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