Poetry in Persia

The Persian literature is very rich and multi-layered meaningful. They are some old Persian poet who are famous, among which, Khayyam is one of my favorite poets. The movie "The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam" is about his life. Khayyam, a mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet lived in some centuries ago in Persia. Reading his poetry was always a relaxing time in my life

There are some other old famous Persian poets, such as Hafez, Molavi, Ferdosi , ... . Among them, I think that Molavi and Khayyam are the most known poets in the Western world. Although it's not easy to translate poets from one language to another, transmitting the ideas. I hope some literature professors had enough courage and knowledge to do such things.