The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz

Name: The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz
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Hafiz

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Series:

Classics of Sufi Poetry Series

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Peter Avery's late friend, the great Iranian scholar Parviz Natil Khanlari edited what to date should be accepted as the most reliable Divan-i Hafiz. It is the lyrics, Ghazaliyyat, in this Divan that Avery has attempted to translate; there are 486 of them. A primary aim has been to render them as literally as is possible in the English, with extensive footnotes. Avery has also wished to produce them in colloquial English, but of couse, poems of this kind are susceptible to several levels of interpretation. Avery hopes that he has at least succeeded in conveying some sense of this poetry to the reader who lacks knowledge of Persian - they without doubt represent some of mankind's greatest literary achievements. Iranians call their great poet the Lisanu'l-Ghaib, 'The Tongue of the Invisible'. Thus are his poems' divinity recognised. They are even used to this day, as was Virgil, for the purposes of divination. Almost every contemporary Persian household still keeps a copy of the work for this purpose.

Author Biography:

Peter Avery OBE, born in Derby, England, in 1923, has devoted his life to Persian literature and history. As a child he was introduced to Fitzgerald's paraphrase of Omar Khayyam's quatrains. Thus began an abiding interest in Persian poetry and the ideas it expresses and its images. He began to learn Persian during the Second World War when he was stationed in India. His main reason for wanting to learn Persian was the ambition to read Hafiz in the original. Having taken a degree at the London School of Oriental and African studies, after living in Iran and the Middle East until 1957, he became Lecturer in Persian Studies in the University of Cambridge. He is now retired but continues to live in King's College, Cambridge. He is the author of several books including a translation of Attar's 'Mantiq al-Tay' (The Speech of the Birds) and many articles.

Release date NZ

February 22nd, 2007

Author

Hafiz

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Translated by Peter Avery

Edition

First Edition, First ed.

Pages

604

Series

Classics of Sufi Poetry Series

Dimensions

156x234x30

ISBN-13

9781901383263

Product ID

9018306

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