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Poetry

دیوان

Not translated into English

Muhammad Amin Andalib

Synopsis

The Persian divan of Mohammad-Amin Andalib, who died at twenty, son of the poet Gholam-Mohammad Tarzi. The Encyclopaedia Iranica notes it for a specific reason: despite so short a life, he left an entire collection, in the line of a father whom the same encyclopaedia presents as an important follower of Bidel.

Context

The Encyclopaedia Iranica names Andalib just after his father, Gholam-Mohammad Tarzi, whom it regards as an important poet and a disciple of Bidel, and notes that he left a divan despite his short life. His father had printed in Karachi, in 1893, a divan many of whose ghazals respond to Bidel and Saeb, nearly twenty years after the son's death; the Iranica thus brings together two generations of the same family of poets.

Who it is for

Poems in Persian, with no translation. It is better to know a little of Bidel's manner, which the author's family follows.

Prizes and reception

No prize. The encyclopedia mainly notes that a poet with so short a life left a complete collection.

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