Early Persian Poetry From The Beginnings Down To The Time Of Firdausi

Author : A. V. Williams Jackson
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ISBN 13 : 9781331267201
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Early Persian Poetry written by A. V. Williams Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Persian Poetry: From the Beginnings Down to the Time of Firdausi; With Ten Illustrations This book is a labor of love - the outcome of years of devotion to the study of Persia, its history, languages, and literature, and is in part the result of four journeys through the Land of the Sun, in 1903, 1907, 1910, and 1918. Some of the records of these travels have appeared in print elsewhere. The appreciation with which those studies were received has been an incentive to supplement them by a literary presentation, in brief form, of the earlier poetry of Persia down to about 1000 a.d., so as to include Firdausi's Shah-namah, or 'Book of Kings, ' the great epic poem of Persia. Perhaps the reception of the present work may give encouragement enough to lead to the preparation of a couple of volumes on 'Persian Mystic Poetry' and on 'The Lyric and Romantic Poetry of Iran.' The aim of the chapters included in the present volume - and I hope that they may not be found unduly long - is to give succinctly the main outlines of the several early periods now chosen for presentation, and to illustrate, by translations made from the original Persian, the characteristics of the various authors, regarding whom I have gathered material from all sorts of sources, native and foreign. Many of the citations are only small fragments of verse from Persian poets so long dead that they have been evoked almost as shades from the far-distant past; but there is something very human in their brief messages that makes their story more up-to-date than might be imagined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.