An Analytic History of Persian Modern Poetry is a research work on Persian

Persian literature

Persian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...

 contemporary poetry by Shams Langeroodi

Shams Langeroodi

Mohammad Shams Langeroodi is a contemporary Iranian poet, author and university lecturer. He has researched extensively on different periods of Persian poetry, most famous of which has resulted in An Analytic History of Persian Modern Poetry in four volumes...

, first published in 1998.

Format

The book is in 4 volumes including the events in Iranian poetry from 1905 to 1979. It goes year by year starting with a brief description of political and social

Social

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 condition of the time following with a commentary on the literary criticism

Literary criticism

Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...

 condition. A list of literary magazines and published poetry books is provided for each year. From each work, depending on its importance, it has a brief description, selected poems and includes different reviews.

Overall it includes seventy years of: bibliography

Bibliography

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 of Persian modern poetry, Persian poetry publications (magazines, special issues, etc.) and a list of Persian poetry criticism

Criticism

Criticism is the judgement of the merits and faults of the work or actions of an individual or group by another . To criticize does not necessarily imply to find fault, but the word is often taken to mean the simple expression of an objection against prejudice, or a disapproval.Another meaning of...

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Each volume covers the following years:

• Volume. 1: 1905–1953
• Volume. 2: 1953–1962
• Volume. 3: 1962–1970
• Volume. 4: 1970–1979

Importance

An Analytic History of Persian Modern Poetry was the first major research work on Persian modern poetry.

"Even if Shams Langeroodi Shams Langeroodi Mohammad Shams Langeroodi is a contemporary Iranian poet, author and university lecturer. He has researched extensively on different periods of Persian poetry, most famous of which has resulted in An Analytic History of Persian Modern Poetry in four volumes... hadn't done anything before, even if he would do nothing, this book is enough to keep his name in the Iranian literature history."

Hafez Mousavi