Fifty Poems of Hafiz ~A. J. Arberry ~ Persian Text + English translations & annotations ~ Sufi mystical poetry

Title: Fifty Poems of Hafiz

Author: Texts and Translations Collected and Made, Introduced and Annotated by Arthur J. Arberry

Description: 1962 reprint of the corrected edition of 1953. Boards in red cloth with gilt stamped spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and name written on front free endpaper; spot of soiling on one leaf, else internally clean. Dust jacket shows wear at foot of spine and along top edge of front panel; in an archival mylar sleeve. 187 pages.

Fifty Persian texts, followed by English translations and Arberry's notes on the texts. This selection of fifty poems (with English poetical versions by fourteen different hands) has the double object of exhibiting the various aspects of Hafiz' style and thought, and of representing how English scholars have attempted to render his poetry in their own language. Professor Arberry writes a long introduction, which is both biographical and critical.

The translators were Arberry, Gertrude Bell, Herman Bicknell, Elizabeth Daryush, H. H. [Wilson?], John Haddon Hindley, Sir William Jones, Thomas Law, Walter Leaf, Richard Le Gallienne, Reuben Levy, John Nott, Edward Henry Palmer, John Payne, and John Richardson.


Binding: Hardcover
Condition: VG+
Jacket Condition: VG

Publisher: Cambridge | at the University Press
Year: 1962

Keywords: Hafez, Sufi, Persian, poetry,