Reflections on Khavari Shirazi's Life and Poems

By the crowning of Fatali Shah Ghajar, poetry found a better position and status compared with the previous periods of Zands and Afsharids. The Ghajar king who was a poet himself and whose pen name was khaghan began to support poets and with the formation and establishment of the new center of restoration movement in Tehran, many poets directed their steps from around the country toward the capital of Iran, Tehran. Khavari Shirazi is one of the poets who immigrated from Shiraz to Tehran and by relying on his inherent talent and practicing letter writing and historiography, and poem recitation in the literary circles of the capital, turned into one of the relatively known poets and writers of his era and left many complete poetical works embracing more than seven thousand couplets of different forma such as elegy, ode, compounds of stanzas, mathnavi, quatrain and poems stanzas. In this paper, after providing a brief study of poetry status in Afshar era, up to the end of Fatali shah's period, the biography, the works, the Divan of the poetry and the compilation of the Divan and style of Khavari shirazi are analyzed in details.