The Nightingales are Drunk

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Spiritual, sensual verses on love, heartbreak and celebrating life's small pleasures, by the great fourteenth-century Persian poet. 'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years. One of the greatest figures of world literature, he remains today the most popular poet in modern Iran. Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

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Hafez (c. 1315-1390). Hafez's poetry is published in Penguin Classics in Dick Davis's translation as part of his anthology of three poets of Shiraz, FACES OF LOVE.