Persian Poems

Informationen zum Autor Various Authors Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Washington
• Assisted by: Peter Washington (Editor), Washington Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2000
• EAN: 9781841597430
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-743-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 18 mm x 166 mm x 114 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets; Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction in translation, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY / Middle Eastern, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Persian Empire