Narrative poem · 1836

Laili and Majnun

A poem from the original Persian of Nizami, translated by James Atkinson

by Nizami Ganjavi

Translated by James Atkinson (1836)

The Arab tale of Qays, who is driven mad by love and called Majnun, and of Laili, who is married to another and dies of longing, as Nizami told it in the twelfth century and Atkinson first rendered it into English verse.

Contents · 19 parts

• I76 lines
• IIabout 100 lines
• III78 lines
• IVabout 260 lines
• Vabout 210 lines
• VI82 lines
• VIIabout 110 lines
• VIII34 lines
• IXabout 270 lines
• X68 lines
• XIabout 130 lines
• XIIabout 160 lines
• XIIIabout 160 lines
• XIVabout 110 lines
• XVabout 260 lines
• XVI74 lines
• XVIIabout 200 lines
• XVIIIabout 140 lines
• XIXabout 570 lines

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