Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell: with the Original Persian on the Facing Page: 1 (Classics of Persian Literature ; 1)

Includes Bells translation of Hafez along with the original Persian (Farsi). Also included are Bells extensive introduction on the life and poetry of Hafez and a preface by E. Denison Ross. As E.G. Browne has commented: Bells translations are true poetry of a very high order and with perhaps the single exception of FitzGeralds paraphrase of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam are probably the finest and most truly poetical renderings of any Persian poet ever produced in the English language.