Hafiz (d.1390) is honoured as the greatest lyric poet of Iran and
its greatest writer of 'ghazals', the form which he perfected.
Peter Avery is one of the most eminent scholars of Persian poetry
of the West and it was his late friend, the great Iranian scholar
Parviz Natil Khanlari, who edited what is often accepted as the
most reliable collection of poems, or Divan-i Hafiz. It is this
complete collection, 486 poems in all, that Avery has translated
here into English for the first time with extensive annotation. A
primary aim has been to render them as literally as possible while
trying to convey some sense of the poetry of Hafiz, the Shakespeare
of Persian literature, to the reader who lacks knowledge of Persian
- as this Divan is without doubt one of mankind's greatest literary
achievements. Iranians call their great poet the 'Lisanu'l-ghayb',
the Tongue of the Invisible. Thus are the poems' divinity
recognised. To this day a copy of the Divan may be found in many
households where it is used for the purpose of divination.
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