Dick Davis (7)

English-American poet. Dick Davis is an English-American poet, university professor, and translator of verse, who is affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry. Marriage to an Iranian woman, Afkham Darbandi, and a subsequent experience as a refugee from war-torn Iran prompted Davis's interest in Persian poetry, and lent to his translating many of the greatest masterpieces of both ancient and modern Persian poetry into English. Davis is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been called, by The Times Literary Supplement, “our finest translator from Persian." Davis' original poetry has been just as highly praised.