Eliot's Classicism and Wordsworth's Romanticism in the Context of Nimaic Thought

″Arzesh-e Ehsasat″ and ″Nameha-ye Hamsaye″, two major works of Nima Yushij, the modern Persian poet, are among the most eminent early Persian literary criticism on free verse poetry. In these two long articles, Nima postulates upon the idea of how free versepoetry differentiates from the classical counterpart much practiced and advocated by the classical poets of both past and his contemporary. At first glance, and due to his revolutionary reaction against the classical heritage of Persian literature, Nima might have seemed to emanate a radical shift from the tradition of the classical basis. This, however, is annulled in the present article by an attempt to excruciate both the romantic and classical foundations of Nima’s ideas. To do this, the authors have compared and contrasted his literary theories in the works mentioned above with the two English counterparts in the realm of classical and romantic literary criticism – William Wordsworth and his Preface to The Lyrical Ballads (1800) and T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919) respectively. The result of this research introduces Nima as a poet who epitomizes the features of both Western classical and romantic spirit.