A critical and analytic insight into the trend of history of literature in Iran's schools from 1991 up to 2011

History of literature is apparently the history of literary texts, i.e. poem and prose but in fact, it is the history of the process of thought and reflection which appears in the form of poetry and prose. History of literature in Iran is closely related to the history of thoughts and opinions that is always been absent in our history of literature. So we have to gather and apply all the implements available so that our history of literature is a worthy one.In the late seventies and eighties, rather fundamental changes occurred in history of literature as there was a history of literature different from the one taught in schools up to 1993. So we tried to first reflect the changes and then to assess the strengths and weaknesses of this course in the two decades and finally our effort focused on the comparison of history of literature of the two decades with the one in the last years. In this article, it was attempted to lead attentions to the fact that history of literature should be a practical course and be out of static state.