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Classical Literature
Classical Persian literature in English: anthologies and studies of the Persian poets and prose writers, in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century editions.
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Texts
Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern — Elizabeth A. ReedElizabeth A. Reed’s 1893 survey of Persian literature from the Babylonian and Assyrian tablets and the Zend-Avesta through the Korān, the Anwār-i-Suhali fables, Firdusī’s Shāh Nāmah, Nizāmī, Rūmi, Sā’dī, Hāfiz and Jāmi to the romance of Meher and Mūshteri, with extracts from the English translations of other scholars.Persian Literature, Vol. I — Richard J. H. GottheilThe first volume of the 1909 revised edition of Persian Literature, with Richard J. H. Gottheil’s special introduction: James Atkinson’s abridged prose-and-verse version of Firdusi’s Sháh Námeh, Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and forty-two odes of Háfiz in H. Bicknell’s translation of the Divan, with their introductions and notes.Persian Literature, Vol. II — Richard J. H. GottheilThe second volume of the 1900 revised edition of Persian Literature in The World’s Great Classics: James Ross’s English prose version of Sa'di’s Gulistan, or Rose Garden, its eight chapters of anecdotes, maxims and counsel from the customs of kings to the duties of society, with an introduction signed E.W. and Sa'di’s conclusion; some pieces are passed over, as the printed asterisks show.