Persian Poetry - Couverture souple

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1565438965 ISBN 13 : 9781565438965

Editeur : Mt. San Antonio College, 2019

Synopsis

I first encountered Persian poetry when I was at Notre Dame high school. It was my sophomore year and our English teacher had us read excerpts from such notable Sufi poets as Rumi, Omar Khayyam, and Hafiz. I was immediately enamored and became somewhat obsessed in reading all that I could from these remarkably wise poets. Over the years I have continued my love of Sufi writings and here at the MSAC Philosophy Group we have had the privilege of publishing a number of books on this subject, including such titles as The Mystics of Islam, Conference of the Birds, and The Blissful Longing of Rumi. Recently, we published Gertrude Bell’s pioneering study of Hafiz, the Divan. Just the other day I happened to be visiting our local used bookstore in Huntington Beach when I happened upon an early edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s collected works. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it contained a longish essay on Persian poetry and Emerson’s obvious love of Hafiz’s wonderful poetry. I decided there and then that we should publish his essay in a separate volume and to come out with a nice, stylized edition, which can better contextualize the feeling of Emerson’s writing and his judicious selections of Persian poetry. “As Emerson said of Hafiz: ‘He fears nothing. He sees too far, he sees throughout; such is the only man I wish to see or be.’ And Emerson gave Hafiz that grand and famous compliment, ‘Hafiz is a poet for poets.’”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mt. San Antonio College
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1565438965
• ISBN 13: 9781565438965
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Éditeur: Lane David Christopher
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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