Poetry
مجموعهٔ اشعار
Not translated into English
Payenda Muhammad Farhat · 1960
Synopsis
A collection of the Persian poems of Payanda Muhammad Farhat, published in Kabul in 1960 under the title Recueil de poèmes. The Encyclopaedia Iranica cites it among the books of the Kabuli poets who remained faithful to the so-called Indian style, that Persian manner which embeds images within one another, inherited from Bidel.
Context
Farhat appears in the Encyclopaedia Iranica alongside Nadim, Shayeq Jamal and Navid, among the poets of Kabul who remained in the line of Bidel; it is for him alone that the page gives a title and a date, Maǰmūʿa-ye ašʿār, Kabul, 1339 of the solar calendar. The title translates as Collection of Poems, the only title that the encyclopaedia associates with his name.
Who it is for
Poems in Persian, with no translation. It helps to know a little of the Indian manner of Persian poetry, inherited from Bedil.
Prizes and reception
No known distinction; the Encyclopaedia Iranica cites only this book for him, dated 1960.