Parnassus : Poetry in Review, January 1st, 2008
The Book of Kings Abolqasem Ferdowsi. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings. Translated by Dick Davis. Viking 2006. 885 pp. $45.00 $25.00 (paperback)
THE Book of Kings, Shahnameh, is the national epic of Iran, and one of the loftiest summits of world literature. Completed in the early eleventh century, it is to Iranians and the Persianate world what the Iliad the Odyssey are to Greeks and the West. Until recently, Persian classical poetry was largely unknown to the general public in the West, the purview of a few specialists and academics. Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat ofOmar Khayyam (1859), a ...
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