Father of Persian verse : Rudaki and his poetry /

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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 Per...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tabatabai, Sassan, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Persian
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Quatrains, Persian
Poetry.
Poetry by individual poets.
poetry.
Poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Translations
Poésie.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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