Newly-Found Poems of Anvari in an Old Manuscript

جستارهای نوین ادبی

Article 2, Volume 45, Issue 4 - Serial Number 179, February 2012, Pages 19-43   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jls.v45i4.17193

Authors

mohsen sharifi sahi^* ; mahdokht porkhaleghi chatrodi

Abstract

Anvari is a great Iranian poet whose poetry has influenced both his contemporary and subsequent poets. His divan has been published several times in Iran and India. The two recensions made in Iran have received widespread public acceptance. It was first Saeed Nafisi who gathered Anvari’s poems and later Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi corrected his divan. However, both editions reveal some errors so much so that a more comprehensive and meticulous recension seems to be inevitable. While emphasizing the necessity of a critical correction of Anvari’s divan, the present study also introduces an old copy dating back to 680 A.H. which was found in the library of Iranian Consultative Assembly. This copy, ignored by the two mentioned scholars, includes two qazals, 6 qit’ehs and 84 newly-found ruba'is which were missing from the previous editions of Anvari’s divan.

Keywords

Anvari; Saeed Nafisi; Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi; Consultative Assembly manuscript; newly-found