Divan of Lamei Gorgani Iranian poet

Divan of Lamei Gorgani

The author of “Divan of Lamei Gorgani” is Lamei Gorgani. Lamei Gorgani was a famous Iranian poet who lived in 5th century AH during the reign of great Seljuks. Since he belongs to the period of cultural transition from the Ghaznavids to the Seljuks, he can be considered as an important notable poet, and because the volume of court and official poetry in early Seljuk period (the period of Tughril, Alp Arsalan and Malik Shah) was less than the periods before and after Lamei, so it can be said that he was the most prominent poet of Seljuk court who had composed odes in praise of ‘Amid al Molk Kondori, the Seljuk portentous rationalist minister. There is no complete Divan of him. There are some incomplete copies of his works which none of their writing history goes before the Qajar era and are all collected from different anthologies and biographies. With about 1200 verses by the efforts of some scholars such as Nafisi, Dabir-Siyaqi and Ali Ashraf Sadeqi, his incomplete divan has been frequently published.Another part of this old poet may be recovered through a careful search in manuscripts.Including his 52 newly founded verses, this article introduces new resources of Lamei’s poems.