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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

Ḥāfiẓ

PoetryEnglish
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Hafiz of Shiraz is the best-loved poet of Persia, whose ghazals, short lyrics of love, wine and longing, can be read both as songs of earthly pleasure and as…

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Author
Ḥāfiẓ
Category
Poetry
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

Hafiz of Shiraz is the best-loved poet of Persia, whose ghazals, short lyrics of love, wine and longing, can be read both as songs of earthly pleasure and as mystical poems about the love of God; in Iran his divan is still opened at random to tell one's fortune. This book offers a selection of his poems in English verse, with a long introduction on his life, his city and the Sufi ideas behind his imagery.

Context and significance

Hafiz (about 1315–1390) spent nearly his whole life in Shiraz. His translator, Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), was then a young traveller who had just visited Persia; she later became an archaeologist and British official in Iraq, played a leading part in the making of the modern Iraqi state, and founded the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. This first edition appeared in 1897. Compare The Persian Mystics: Jami.

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