Since the middle ages, Persia has produced more great poets than any other country in the world.
Sir William Jones about two hundred fifty years ago, in his introduction on Hafez, wrote, "...
At Oxford there is a manuscript containing the lives of a hundred and twenty-eight of the finest Persian poets," of these, according to Iranians, the fourteenth century poet, Hafez, is their last, greatest, and the most beloved of all; even though, Persia has had poets like Sa\'di, Khayyam, Ferdosi, Nez.
Since the middle ages, Persia has produced more great poets than any other country in the world