Classic Poetry

The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess

Her praxis, as her poetic corpus reveals, is rooted in the Saivate tradition and equally influenced by Islamic mysticism.

Amir Suhail Wani
· Mar 30, 2025 · 03:30 pm
A glimpse of five centuries of Amir Khusraw’s poetry

A peek at Persian manuscripts of the writer’s work in the British Library.

Sunil Sharma
· Oct 05, 2022 · 01:30 pm
A ‘new’ poetry find has left lovers of Sappho thrilled, but its backstory may have been fabricated

Fresh research calls into question the published accounts of the origin of ancient papyrus fragments of the Greek poet’s work.

C Michael Sampson, The Conversation
· Feb 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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