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Also Known As	Farsī literature • Modern Persian literature • New Persian literature

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Kemalpaşazâde

Turkish historian

Rūmī

Sufi mystic and poet

Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library

Ferdowsī

Persian poet

Omar Khayyam

Persian poet and astronomer

Saʿdī, detail of a 17th-century miniature from a manuscript (1581) of the Gulistān; in the British Library (Royal Asiatic Society loan 5).

Saʿdī

Persian poet

Sadeq Hedayat.

Sadeq Hedayat

Iranian author

Muhammad ʿAli Jamalzadah

Iranian author

Ḥāfeẓ

Ḥāfeẓ

Persian author

Nāṣer-e Khusraw

Persian author

Bozorg Alavi

Iranian author

Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli

Turkish author

Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār

Persian poet

Anvarī

Persian poet

ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī

Turkish poet

Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin

Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi

poet

Khaqani

Khāqānī

Persian poet

Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī

Iranian scholar

Nezami

Neẓāmī

Persian-language poet

Nefʾi

Ottoman poet

Bahar, Muhammad Taqi

Muḥammad Taqī Bahār

Iranian author

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Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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