TY - BOOK AU - Tabatabai,Sassan TI - Father of Persian Verse: Rudaki and his Poetry SN - 9789087282851 PB - Leiden University Press KW - Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - lcgft KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - This book presents Rudaki as the founder of a new poetic aesthetic, which was adopted by subsequent generations of Persian poets. Rudaki is credited with being the first to write in the ruba'i form; and many of the images we first encounter in Rudaki's lines have become staples of Persian poetry UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/427bb5a3-1d2d-4920-ab6b-649a8c849432 ER -