Abstract

The present paper aims at studying Western Transcendentalist and Eastern Mystic discourse through their representation in literature. To this end, three poets from both sides, namely Emerson, the American poet, (1803-1882), Khayyam (1048-1131) and Hafiz, two Iranian poets (1325/6- 1389/90), who are religious intellectual thinkers, were selected for the study of their ideas and philosophy, namely Eastern Mysticism and Western Transcendentalism, according to which they interpret the Divinity, established religion, duality, worldly life, spiritual future, fatalism, soul, Over-Soul, resurrection, and symbolic and allegoric terminology in Mysticism. The paper compares the mentioned poets who are representatives of the Mystic and Transcendentalist philosophies of the East and West.