Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi

Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi was an Iranian poet and university professor.

Works

Šokufahā yā naḡmahā-ye jadid, a selection of poems, Shiraz, 1938 Baʿd az yak sāl, Shiraz, 1940 ʿEšq-e dar ba dar, 3 vols., Shiraz, 1940-52 Ašk-e maʿšuq, Shiraz, 1942 Sālhā-ye siāh, Tehran, 1946 Šāʿer dar āsmān, Shiraz, 1942Zamzama-ye beheštFonun o anvāʿ-e šeʿr-e fārsi, Tehran, 1973aDah farmān, collection of poems, Tehran, 1965Fereštagān-e zamin, prose, 1942Sabok-sarihā-ye ghalam, prose, Tehran, ca. 1943Ṭelesm-e šekasta, 1945Šāhkārhā-ye Ferdowsi, Tehran, 1947Daryā-ye gowhar, an anthology of contemporary prose, poetry and translations, 3 vols., Tehran, 1950-59

Behešt-e soḵan, a select anthology of classical Persian poetry with critical commentaries, 2 vols., Tehran, 1958–59ʿAruż-e Ḥamidi, on Persian prosody, Tehran, 1963ʿAṭṭār 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, 1984Šeʿr 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.