Frooghi Bastami and Restoration Sonnet

Frooghi Bastami is one of the sonneteers of the thirteenth century. Having praised the princes of Ghajar for a while, he became the poet of the court of Nasaradinshah. Frooghi's delving into the works and circumstances of great mystics such as Bayazid Bastami, Hallaj, Abolhassan Kharghani and others, changed his life and consequently caused him to be a dervish. He belongs to Return Period in poetry. The language of his sonnets is eloquent and deft and close to that of Sadi and Hafez. He has borrowed the lyrical themes of his sonnets from Sadi and the mystic themes from Hafez and many of his sonnets are imitations of their sonnets. In addition to studying the features of Frooghi's sonnets, this article attempts to investigate the extent to which he has been influenced by the poets of seventh and eighth centuries.