Although the Persian speaking poets and authors of the ancient times were a
war of the changes in the characteristics of the literary works, specially of the
characteristics of those of transitional periods, they did not have a true
realization of the literary styles and stylistics. The biographies of the poets,
too, included no theories on the subject.
In the past one or two centuries as the western world has cast a new
looking on the literary theories, stylistics, like literary criticism, has greatly
developed under the int1uence of linguistics, psychology, sociology,etc. But in
Iran the development of stylistics from Malek ol-shoara-ye Bahar onward has
been slow.
As classifying the poetical and prose styles is a fundamental subject
sketched in the theoretical domain of this knowledge, after surveying the
persian stylistics, specially the attempts made to classify the literary works and
periods, the writer of this paper proposes and outlines map(a mapping) for
classifying the persian poetical and prose styles.