محمدتقی بهار

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1884, Mashhad – 1951, Tehran) is a renowned Iranian poet and scholar, who was also a politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character. He was widely known as ملک‌ الشعراء (Malek o-Sho'arā (literally: the king of poets)).