The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women by Dick Davis

The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

Dick Davis

262 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction classics history poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe'eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they te...

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Moods

emotional 83%
reflective 77%
informative 50%
inspiring 44%
challenging 33%
sad 33%
dark 22%
funny 16%
hopeful 11%
lighthearted 11%
mysterious 5%
tense 5%

Pace

medium 56%
slow 25%
fast 18%

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