Analysis of Attar’s views on poetry and comparing them with those of literary critics

جستارهای نوین ادبی

Article 3, Volume 40, Issue 1 - Serial Number 158, November 2007, Pages 57-76   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jls.v40i3.13160

Author

Ahmad Reza’ee^*

Abstract

Comparing literary views of the poets and writers, as the creators of literary texts and those of the critics has rarely been noticed in the area of literary criticism. This article, studies Attar’s point of views on various issues of poetry including rhyme, rhythm, poetic inspiration, addressee, utterance, meaning and didactic poem. The author of the article studies four Masnavis of Attar –Elahinameh, Asrarnameh, Mosibatnameh, and Mantegh-o-tair- and the poet’s views on the above mentioned terms are extracted and then are compared with the views of the contemporary and

Keywords

Attar of Neishabour; Masnavi; literary views; criticism; analysis