Vis & Ramin by Fakhraddin Gorgani Translated by Dick Davis 2008, Mage Publishers About the book, the author, and the translator Vis & Ramin is one of the worldÂ’s great love stories. It was the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1055 in rhyming couplets. This remarkable work has now been superbly translated into heroic couplets (the closest metrical equivalent of the Persian) by the poet and scholar Dick Davis and published by Mage Publishers. Vis and Ramin had immense influence on later Persian poetry and is very probably also the source for the tale of Tristan and...