helen ouliaei nia - assistant professor of facualty of foreign ianguages esfahan university

Regarding the curious structural and thematic similarity between johnson's Rasselas and Saadi's Golestan and with respect to numerous referenc made a quick research through Boswell's life of samuel johnson and johnson's letters and she discovered that johnson has show special interest in Persian culture and literaure this become a motibation for the researcher to carry on an extensive research to fine out about the source of this interest and to see if johnson has been probably influenced by persian classical writers espeecially saadi.

comparative study of Rasselas and Golestan, Saadi and johnson, the probable influence of saadi, Western and Persian Clasical writers