Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold part 1

Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold -
Read by David Shaw Parker produced by Robert Nichol Audio Productions London
This brief epic was completed in April 1853, after many
interruptions. I "think [it is] by far the best thing I have yet done
... but then the story is a very noble and excellent one," remarked
Arnold. In Poems by Matthew Arnold: A Second Edition, 1854, Arnold
appended both the extract from Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia,
which was his general source, and Sainte Beuve's notice (Causeries du
lundi, I) of a French translation by Mohl of the Shahnama, the Persian
national epic by Ferdousi (940?-1020) to which he acknowledged a
certain obligation. Arnold insisted, though, "of M. Mohl's book itself
I have not been able to obtain sight."

In "Sohrab and Rustum,"
Arnold has used only one incident from the heroic legend of Rustum, a
Hercules figure from Persian mythology, hence the secondary title of
the poem, "An Episode." Arnold has altered the supposed date of the
episode, removing it from the reign of the weak Kai Kaous to that of
the great Kai Khosroo (Cyrus the Great?). In form, the poem follows the
blank verse (iambic pentameter unrhymed poetry) of Milton's Paradise
Lost (1667) rather than of Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's
Iliad (1715-20) into Heroic (iambic pentameter) Couplets.
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[DeadlyMnM]

-_-

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........­..

WAh! Man please make a dramatization or something, no offense but I could barely keep myself awake..... at least use other pictures

[JustAudio2008]

That why I call my channel -JustAudio.

The words tell the tale -too many pictures would distract.

sorry if you need more stimulation.

-you probably would find the full 54 minutes too much

[155362]

i need the video! we need to play this epic.. :( where i can find one?

[Peacefulsolutions1]

Remember this from my Eng Lit O level in 1962. Great lines - 'Truth sits upon the lips of dying men'

However,we did baulk at the simile 'like some rich hyacinth which by the scythe of an unskilled gardener has been cut'- Sohrab the champion of the Tartars likened to a hyacinth!