PERSIAN POEMS (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Peter Washington Christina Lauren Six of our greatest masterworks

Six of our greatest masterworks of science fiction and fantasy

it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults

blissful week they leave behind their daily lives

yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all

PERSIAN POEMS (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Peter Washington Christina Lauren Six of our greatest masterworksThe Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and Jami are still being discovered in the West. The great medieval Persian poets owe much to the mystical Sufi tradition within Islam, which understands life as a journey in search of enlightenment, and, like their European contemporaries, they