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Jerome W. Clinton

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Jerome W. Clinton

Jerome W. Clinton was professor emeritus of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University and a scholar of Iranian culture and society. Clinton taught Persian language and literature, as well as courses in Near Eastern literature, translation, classical Islamic civilization and the cultural history of Iran. His most widely acclaimed work was the study and translation of the Iranian national epic, the Shahnama (The Book of Kings). Clinton also wrote The Divan of Manuchihri Damghani: A Critical Study, co-wrote Modern Persian: Spoken and Written, and translated The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam and In the Dragon's Claws from the Shahnama. He won the Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize in 2002 from the American Institute of Iranian Studies for In the Dragon's Claws.

Articles by Jerome W. Clinton

Illuminations
By Sohrab Sepehri
A cloudless sky,no breath of wind,I sit beside the courtyard pool.The slow stirrings of the goldfish,the radiance and I,the earth and water—Life clusters in a fresh washed bunch. My mother…
Translated from Persian by Jerome W. Clinton
Water
By Sohrab Sepehri
Let’s not muddy the water.Imagine that close by a doveis drinking from it,or in a distant grove a finchis washing its wings in it,or in some village it fills a storage jar. Let’s not…
Translated from Persian by Jerome W. Clinton
Address
By Sohrab Sepehri
In it there is love as wide as the blue wings of true friendship.
Translated from Persian by Jerome W. Clinton