Name: Faces of Love
Brand: Mage Publishers Inc (US)
SKU: 9781949445022
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Faces of Love

Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

By (author): Dick Davies, By (author): Hafez, By (author): Jahan Malek Khatun

Published by Mage Publishers Inc (US)

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Published: 29-Jan-2019
ISBN: 9781949445022

Hardback
584 Pages

Subjects:
Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Iran

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This bilingual edition of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz has the original Persian verses facing the English translations. The three Shirazi poets whose work is featured here, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and Obayd-e Zakani, lived at the same time (the mid fourteenth century), and certainly knew of one another Obayd wrote at least two poems about Jahan Khatun, and Jahan Khatun quotes Hafez in one of her poems. Its extremely likely that, during the 1340s and early 1350s at least, they also knew one another personally. The poetic life of the city during this period centered on the court of the ruling family, the Injus; Jahan Khatun was an Inju princess, while her uncle, Abu Eshaq, the head of the family and the ruler of the city, was a great patron of poets.

Dick Davis was born in Portsmouth, England in 1945 and educated at King's College, Cambridge (BA and MA in English Literature), and at the University of Manchester (PhD in Medieval Persian Literature). He is currently professor of Persian at Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Davis [is] widely acknowledged as the leading translator of Persian literature in our timeFaces of Love has made the Persian originals into real and moving English poems. Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"Davis has done something Id thought impossible: given us an Englished Hafez whose verses retain an intimation of what all the fuss is about...this anthology is a revelation." Michael Robbins, The Chicago Tribune

"Radiant...Davis expertly elucidates the conventions these poets worked within and played against." A. E. Stallings, The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year