Hafiz, Master of Persian Poetry: A Critical Bibliography

Among the ranks of world literature, the Persian poet Hafiz (born c1320 in the city of Shiraz) occupies an exalted position and his poems have long been translated and studied in the West. Parvin Loloi has collected the entire body of translations of Hafiz in English and identifies the specific problems that his writing presents to translators (together with the varying strategies adopted by translators to surmount these difficulties). This book includes a comprehensive first-line index of English translations of individual poems of Hafiz.