A Review on the Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Salman- e Savaji

Editing the poems composed by Salman-e Savaji is a difficult task which some researchers have dealt with so far. No doubt, the job involves more problems due to the large number of poems, variety of the prosodic forms and their requirements. However, if the proper principles of text editing are correctly observed and the editor possesses meritorious abilities, no negative effect will seriously appear but it will provide a ground for the editor to realize his technical skills. Unfortunately, the complete works (کلیات) of Salamn-e Savaji, whose second edition is published by Nashr-e Sokhan, does not meet such qualities and suffers from many defects. The article aims at achieving the correct readings of the corrupted lines in this edition and tries to mention the editor’s various pitfalls in this work.