Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi

Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi () (5 May 1914 Shiraz, Iran – 14 July 1986, Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian poet and university professor.

Works

• Å okufahā yā naḡmahā-ye jadid, a selection of poems, Shiraz, 1938 (collections of poetry)
• BaÊ¿d az yak sāl, Shiraz, 1940 (collections of poetry)
• Ê¿EÅ¡q-e dar ba dar, 3 vols., Shiraz, 1940-52 (collections of poetry)
• AÅ¡k-e maÊ¿Å¡uq (The tears of the beloved), Shiraz, 1942 (collections of poetry)
• Sālhā-ye siāh (on the colonial policy of Great Britain, the communist takeover of Azerbaijan, and the tribal uprising in Fārs after World War II), Tehran, 1946 (suppressed) (collections of poetry)
• Šāʿer dar āsmān, Shiraz, 1942
• Zamzama-ye beheÅ¡t
• Fonun o anvāʿ-e Å¡eÊ¿r-e fārsi, Tehran, 1973a
• Dah farmān, collection of poems, Tehran, 1965
• FereÅ¡tagān-e zamin (Angels of the earth), prose, 1942
• Sabok-sarihā-ye ghalam (The frivolities of the pen), prose, Tehran, ca. 1943
• Ṭelesm-e Å¡ekasta, 1945
• Šāhkārhā-ye Ferdowsi, Tehran, 1947
• Daryā-ye gowhar, an anthology of contemporary prose, poetry and translations, 3 vols., Tehran, 1950-59 (vol. 3 reviewed by Iraj Afšār, in Yaḡmā 9/2, 1954, pp. 94–95)
• BeheÅ¡t-e soḵan, a select anthology of classical Persian poetry with critical commentaries, 2 vols., Tehran, 1958–59
• Ê¿Aruż-e Ḥamidi, on Persian prosody, Tehran, 1963
• Ê¿Aṭṭār dar maṯnavihā-ye gozida-ye u wa gozida-ye maṯnawihā-ye u, Tehran, 1968
• “Taá¹£vir-e Å¡eÊ¿r-e ghadim dar masir-e Å¡eÊ¿r-e jadid”, Armaḡān 40, 1971, pp. 361–64, 442-45, 514-16, 589-91, 680-83
• “Baḥṯ-i dar bāra-ye SaÊ¿di,” in Maná¹£ur Rastgār Fasāʾi, ed., SaÊ¿di, Shiraz, 1973b, pp. 70–127; “ʿElm-e bayān,” Ḵerad wa kuÅ¡eÅ¡, no. 1, 1978, pp. 95–114;
• Fonun-e Å¡eÊ¿r va kālbodhā-ye pulādin-e ān, a collection of poems, Tehran, 1984
• Å eÊ¿r dar Ê¿aá¹£r-e Qājār, Tehran, 1985; Divān, Tehran, 1988. His major translation is of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence, as Māh wa Å¡eÅ¡ peni, Tehran, 1950.

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