UNSURI

'Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri' () (d. 1039/1040) was a 10-11th century poet of Persia.
He is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court, and was given the title ''Malik-us Shu'ara'' (King of Poets').
His ''Divan'' is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which 2500 only remain today.

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★ E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X

★ Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968 . ISBN 90-277-0143-1

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List of Persian poets and authors

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