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alusur-10405	Mikkelson, Jane	Review of Williams, The Masnavi of Rūmī	2023	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2025	80	55	(That being said, there may be English readers who prefer to read long narratives in rhyme, and surely it is a good thing to have multiple thoughtful scholarly translations of Rūmī available in English today.) This meter’s specific rhythm doesn’t have an exact English equivalent, and Williams transposes Rūmī’s rhymed and metered Persian into an unrhymed English iambic pentameter—Shakespeare’s favorite form—which, as Williams proposes, best conveys the feel and flow of the Persian.	cache/alusur-10405.pdf	txt/alusur-10405.txt