Translator: Peter Avery

Publisher: Arche Type

Size/Vol.: A5_EXTRA (17.3x23.5 cm - 6.81x9.25 in)

ISBN : 9781901383096

Language : English

-Binding: Paperback

- Pages: 603

- Hafiz (d. 1390) is honoured as the greatest lyric poet of Iran. The Shakespeare of Persian literature, and in this complete collection of his lyrical poetry the Divan-I Hafiz, we have without a doubt one of the world's greatest literary achievements. Translated here into English from the edition of Parviz Natil Khanlari. The primary aim has been to render the 486 poems as literally as possible while trying to convey some sense of the poetry to the reader who lacks knowledge of Persian. It is presented with extensive annotation by one of today's most eminent scholars of Persian literature.

- Peter Avery, OBE, has devoted his life to Persian literature and history. As a child he was introduced to Fitzgerald's paraphrase of Omar Khayyam's quatrains which led to a lifelong interest in Persian poetry. He began to learn Persian during the Second World War when he was stationed in India because he wanted to be able to read Hafiz in the original.

- Having taken a degree at The London School of Oriental and African Studies, and 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.