Father of Persian verse : Rudaki and his poetry /

Abu 'Abdollâh' Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki (c. 880 CE-941 CE) was a poet to the Samanid court which ruled much of Khorâsân (northeastern Persia) from its seat in Bukhara. He is widely regarded as 'the father' of Persian poetry, for he was the first major poet to write in new Persia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tabatabai, Sassan, 1967-
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Persian
Language Notes:	Introduction in English; poems in the original Persian with parallel English translations.
Published:	Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2010. ©2010
Series:	Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
Subjects:	Rūdakī, > active 10th century > Criticism and interpretation. Rūdakī, > active 10th century > Translations into English. Rūdakī, > active 10th century. Quatrains, Persian > History and criticism. Quatrains, Persian > Translations into English. Literature and literary studies. Literature: history and criticism. Literary studies: poetry and poets. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary. Quatrains, Persian. Poetry. Poetry by individual poets. LITERARY CRITICISM / General Electronic books. poetry. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Translations. Poésie.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
The poetry of Rudaki
Elegies
Panegyric poems
Poems of complaint
Meditations on life, death and destiny
Love and its afflictions
Nature poems
Wine poems
Ruba'siyat.