Persian Poetry in England and America
Title | Persian Poetry in England and America PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Yohannan |
Publisher | Academic Resources Corp |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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Comprehensive treatment of the influence of Persian poetry upon English & American literature. Contains a definitive bibliography.
The Persian Poet Hafiz in England and America
Title | The Persian Poet Hafiz in England and America PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Yohannan |
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Release | 1939 |
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Sufism and American Literary Masters
Title | Sufism and American Literary Masters PDF eBook |
Author | Mehdi Aminrazavi |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2014-10-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1438453531 |
Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers. This book reveals the rich, but generally unknown, influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. The translation of Persian poets such as Hafiz and Sadi into English and the ongoing popularity of Omar Khayyam offered intriguing new spiritual perspectives to some of the major American literary figures. As editor Mehdi Aminrazavi notes, these Sufi influences have often been subsumed into a notion of Eastern, chiefly Indian, thought and not acknowledged as having Islamic roots. This work pays considerable attention to two giants of American literature, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, who found much inspiration from the Sufi ideas they encountered. Other canonical figures are also discussed, including Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, along with literary contemporaries who are lesser known today, such as Paschal Beverly Randolph, Thomas Lake Harris, and Lawrence Oliphant.
The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
Title | The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Reza Taher-Kermani |
Publisher | Edinburgh Critical Studies in |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2022-02-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781474448178 |
The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated and appropriated.
Classical Persian Poetry in English Translation
Title | Classical Persian Poetry in English Translation PDF eBook |
Author | Parvaneh Khosropur |
Publisher | |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 1968 |
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Persian Poetry for English Readers
Title | Persian Poetry for English Readers PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Robinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 744 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | English poetry |
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Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
Title | Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Lewisohn |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2010-06-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0857736604 |
The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz's verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism of Persian love mysticism. This innovative volume discusses the aesthetic theories and mystical philosophy of the classical Persian love-lyric (ghazal) as particularly exemplified by Hafiz (who, along with Rumi and Sa'di, is Persia's most celebrated poet). For the first time in western literature, Hafiz's rhetoric of romance is situated within the broader context of what scholars refer to as 'Love Theory' in Arabic and Persian poetry in particular and Islamic literature more generally. Contributors from both the West and Iran conduct a major investigation of the love lyrics of Hafiz and of what they signified to that high culture and civilization which was devoted to the School of Love in medieval Persia. The volume will have strong appeal to scholars of the Middle East, medieval Islamic literature, and the history and culture of Iran.