Persian Love Poetry

Love is everywhere in Persian poetry. This collection offers extracts translated by the authors from the best of traditional and contemporary Persian poetry and illustrates them with examples of Persian art in the British Museum. It also includes a brief introduction to its tradition and a short biographical note about each of the major poets.

• Author
• Sheila R. Canby, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis

• Format
• hardcover

• Publisher
• British Museum Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780714124292

• Genres
• poetry, iran, classics, literature

• Release date
• 2005