Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi

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

Works

Šokufahā yā naḡmahā-ye jadid, a selection of poems, Shiraz, 1938 (collections of poetry) Baʿd az yak sāl, Shiraz, 1940 (collections of poetry) ʿEšq-e dar ba dar, 3 vols., Shiraz, 1940-52 (collections of poetry) Ašk-e maʿšuq (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 behešt Fonun o anvāʿ-e šeʿr-e fārsi, Tehran, 1973a Dah farmān, collection of poems, Tehran, 1965 Fereštagān-e zamin (Angels of the earth), prose, 1942 Sabok-sarihā-ye ghalam (The frivolities of the pen), prose, Tehran, ca. 1943 Ṭelesm-e šekasta, 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) Behešt-e soḵan, a select anthology of classical Persian poetry with critical commentaries, 2 vols., Tehran, 1958–59 ʿAruż-e Ḥamidi, on Persian prosody, Tehran, 1963 ʿAṭṭār dar maṯnavihā-ye gozida-ye u wa gozida-ye maṯnawihā-ye u, Tehran, 1968 “Taṣvir-e šeʿr-e ghadim dar masir-e šeʿr-e jadid”, Armaḡān 40, 1971, pp. 361–64, 442-45, 514-16, 589-91, 680-83 “Baḥṯ-i dar bāra-ye Saʿdi,” in Manṣur Rastgār Fasāʾi, ed., Saʿdi, Shiraz, 1973b, pp. 70–127; “ʿElm-e bayān,” Ḵerad wa kušeš, no. 1, 1978, pp. 95–114; Fonun-e šeʿr va kālbodhā-ye pulādin-e ān, a collection of poems, Tehran, 1984 Šeʿr dar ʿaṣr-e Qājār, Tehran, 1985; Divān, Tehran, 1988. His major translation is of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence, as Māh wa šeš peni, Tehran, 1950.