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Persian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (7101 words) |
 | Not all this literature is written in Persian, as some consider works written by ethnic Persians in other languages, such as Greek and Arabic, to be included. |
| Most of the great patrons of Persian literature such as Sultan Sanjar and the courts of the Samanids and Ghaznavids were situated in this region, as were the geniuses such as Rudaki, Unsuri, and Ferdowsi who composed them. |
| The beginning of this change is exemplified in an incident in the mid-nineteenth century at the court of Nasereddin Shah, where the reform-minded prime minister, Amir Kabir, chastises the poet Habibollah Qa'ani for "lying" in a panegyric qasida in honor of the prime minister. |
| Italian Literature - MSN Encarta (2261 words) |
| 1341) was used by the 14th-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer as the basis for his “Knight's Tale” and by the 17th-century English poet John Dryden in his poem “Palamon and Arcite”. |
| In literature this change was intensified by a new Classicism, which relied on the authority of Aristotle's rediscovered Poetics and spread later throughout all Europe. |
| The predominant style of the 17th century, not only in literature but in the fine arts and music, was Baroque. |
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