The most revered poet of the Persian language. His Divan still sits in Iranian homes as an oracle, opened at random for guidance. Hafez's ghazals manage simultaneously to be wine songs, mystical allegories, and love poems without resolving the ambiguity; that irreducible multiplicity is their genius. Goethe said reading Hafez made him feel like a student.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.