Document Type : Research Paper
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1 univercity of Tehran
2 Razavi Khorasan - Sabzevar - Sarbedaran Square - Baharestan St. - A 6 - P1
Abstract
One of the lasting and useful works in the contemporary researches of Persian poetry is the Dictionary of Poets (Farhang-e Sokhanvaran), which was edited in two volumes by the effort of Abdul Rasul Khayampour. In this work, the author has organized a list of Persian-language poets' pen name (takhallos) based on the letters of the alphabet, so that the researcher can identify sources about that poet by referring to the poet's pen name of his choice. This Dictionary, with all its honor and importance, like any other great work, is not free of problems, and it seems that it has not attracted the attention of critics and experts. The present article tries to briefly share with other researchers some of the same problems and challenges that the reader faces in using the Farhang-e Sokhanvaran. One of the main problems of this work is creating two or more entries for one poet. This causes the reader to avoid other entries and the information below them when referring to an entry. For this purpose, in this note, first there will be an introduction to introduce the Farhang-e Sokhanvaran and its writing style. In the following, the reader will get to know the most prominent reasons that caused two or more entries to be made in this dictionary for some poets, and will find out that the author sometimes made an entry for a poet, both by name and pen name; As in some cases, both with surname and name. Sometimes error in reading or writing (tashif) has caused two or multiple readings. In some cases, the author himself has made up titles for a poet and has considered two or more entries. Some poets without pen name have been entered with two references. In some places, two completely similar pen names, ...
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