In this innovative book, Bahman Solati presents a comparative study of ?afe?, an internationally renowned poet in the West, particularly in Germany, France, and the Anglophone world for the past 250 years, and his influence on the fifteenth-century classical Persian poet Jami.

Having played a key role on the stage of world literature and poetry, present available studies in the West suffer from a dearth of good research works on ?afe?. This text aims to fill this gap, including coverage of commentaries, critical studies, and compilations of ?afe?'s Divan, juxtaposing...