Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry

by Leonard Lewisohn

Book Overview

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation

After six hundred years, the Persian lyrical poet Hafiz (d. 1389) still remains the most popular poet in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and other parts of Central Asia where Persian is spoken today as the mother tongue. Imitated by the likes of Goethe in Germany, venerated by Tennyson in England and Emerson in the United States during the nineteenth century, he continues to attract...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784532126
• ISBN13: 9781784532123
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"