John Payne - The Poetry of John Payne - Volume III: The Building of the Dream

by John Payne

John Payne was born on 23rd August 1842 in Bloomsbury, London.

He began his career in the legal profession but thus was soon put to one side as he began his renowned translations of Boccaccio's Decameron, The Arabian Nights, and then the poets Omar Khayyam, Fran ois Villon and Diwan Hafez. Of the latter, who he ranked in the same bracket as Dante and Shakepeare, he said; he takes the "whole sweep of human experience and irradiates all things with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1787802485
• ISBN13: 9781787802483
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Portable Poetry
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"