Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres: A History of Persian Literature, Vol III

The third volume in this ground—breaking series, Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800—1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres, introduces masterpieces of Persian literature from these seven centuries to an international audience. In the process, it underlines the remarkable tenacity of their malleable tradition: the perennial dialogue and the interconnectedness which binds together a vast and varied literature composed of many threads, romantic and didactic, in many lands, from Ana...