Shahnameh : Shāhanāmeh chronology of all the kings of Persia written by Persian poet Firdausi in 1010 AD for Mahmud of Ghazni; it contains nearly 60,000 verses.
... most unliterary bloke that ever succeeded in literature and his style is a howling desert. 19 September 1936 You have nowhere said anything about Firdausi, the epic poet of Persia, author of Shahnameh? How is it that you who have made your own culture so wide by means of learning so many languages have allowed a serious gap in it by not knowing Persian? I have read Firdausi in a translation ...
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