TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter 1: The Five Catchwords

Chapter 2: Historical Background

Chapter 3: Nature as an Ideological Device

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1.The Principle of Nature in Retrospect

2.Afsâneh: A Romantic Love

3.Father and the Fatherland

4.Letters from a “City of the Dead”

5.A Decline

6.Towards a New Prosody

7.From Romanticism to Realism

Chapter 4: Nature Poetry

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1.The Concept of Nature in Retrospect

2.Nimâ's Poetry: A Typology

3.The Poet of the Tâti Language

4.Night Poems

5.Two Types of Birds

6.Nature Poetry

Chapter 5: Further Developments

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1.The Discourse of “The People”

Bibliography