Still little known in the West, Persian poetry offers extraordinary riches. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, Persian poetry set these themes in the wider religious and philosophical context of Islam. Omar, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafez and Jami - the great lyric and didactic poets of medieval Persia - are all represented in this selection of translations spanning almost two hundred and fifty years.
- ISBN10 1857157435
- ISBN13 9781857157437
- Publish Date 30 October 2000 (first published 29 September 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Everyman's Library
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English