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No signatures. Some fading to dustjacket spine. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; [viii], 187 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 122mm. Text in Arabic and English."Hafiz, the greatest lyric poet of Persia, was first introduced to English readers in the transaltion by Sir William Jones in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The present selection (fifty poems, with their English poetical versions by fourteen different hands) has the double object of exhibiting the various aspects of Hafiz'style and thought, and of representing how English scholars have attempted to render his poetry in their own language"- from dustjacket blurb.
Author
Hafi
Title
Hafiz: Fifty Poems
Publisher name
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1962
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Abebof326d