The Festival of Spring
from
The Díván of Jeláleddín
Rendered in English Gazels after Rückert's Versions
With an Introduction And a Criticism of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
By
William Hastie, D.D.
Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow
Glasgow
James MacLehose and Sons
Publishers to the University
1903
'In Depth of Conception, as well as in Loftiness of Flight and Sublimity of Language, Jeláleddín surpasses all the Poets of the East.'
Professor Hermann Ethé.
'The greatest Mystical Poet of any Age.'
Reynold A. Nicholson.