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RUDAGT (d. 954)
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See also:RUDAGT (d. 954) . See also:Farid-eddin Mahommed `Abdallah, the first See also:great See also:literary See also:genius of See also:modern See also:Persia, was See also:born in Rudag, a See also:village in Transoxiana, about 870-900. Most of his biographers assert that he was totally See also:blind, but the accurate knowledge of See also:colours shown in his poems makes this very doubtful. The fame of his accomplishments reached the See also:ear of the Samanid Nasr II. See also:bin Ahmad, the ruler of See also:Khorasan and Transoxiana (913-42), who invited the poet to his See also:court. Rudagi became his daily See also:companion, See also:rose to the highest honours and amassed great See also:wealth. In spite of various predecessors, he well deserves the See also:title of " See also:father of See also:Persian literature," " the See also:Adam or See also:Sultan of poets," since he was the first who impressed upon every See also:form of epic, lyric and didactic See also:poetry its See also:peculiar See also:stamp and its individual See also:character. He is also said to have been the founder of the " diwan "—that is, the typical form of the See also:complete collection of a poet's lyrical compositions in a more or less alphabetical See also:order which prevails to the See also:present See also:day among all See also:Mahommedan writers. Of the 1,300,000 verses attributed to him, there remain only 52 kasidas, ghazals and ruba'is; of his epic masterpieces we have nothing beyond a few stray lines in native dictionaries. But the most serious loss is that of his See also:translation of See also:Ibn Mokaffa's Arabic version of the old See also:Indian See also:fable See also:book Kalilah and Dimnah, which he put into Persian See also:verse at the See also:request of his royal See also:patron. Numerous fragments, however, are preserved in the Persian See also:lexicon of Asadi of Tus (ed. P. See also:Horn, See also:Gottingen, 1897). In his kasidas, all devoted to the praise of his See also:sovereign and friend, Rudagi has See also:left us unequalled See also:models of a refined and delicate See also:taste, very different from the often bombastic compositions of later Persian encomiasts. His didactic odes and epigrams See also:express in well-measured lines a sort of Epicurean See also:philosophy of human See also:life and human happiness; more charming still are the purely lyrical pieces in glorification of love and See also:wine. Rudagi survived his royal friend, and died poor and forgotten by the See also:world.
There is a complete edition of all the extant poems of Rudagi, in Persian See also:text and metrical See also:German translation, together with a See also:biographical See also:account, based on See also:forty-six Persian See also:MSS., in Dr H. Ethe's " Rudagi der Samanidendichter " (Gottinger Nachrichten, 1873, pp. 663—742) ; see also his Neupersische Literatur " in Geiger's Grundriss der iranischen Philologie (H.); P. Horn, Gesch. der persischen Literatur (1901), p. 73; E. G. See also: J. See also:Pickering, " A Persian See also:Chaucer " in See also:National See also:Review (May 189o). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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