Ottoman Lyric Poetry

Author : Walter G. Andrews
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800933
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ottoman Lyric Poetry written by Walter G. Andrews and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottoman Empire was one of the most significant forces in world history and yet little attention is paid to its rich cultural life. For the people of the Ottoman Empire, lyrical poetry was the most prized literary activity. People from all walks of life aspired to be poets. Ottoman poetry was highly complex and sophisticated and was used to express all manner of things, from feelings of love to a plea for employment. This collection offers free verse translations of 75 lyric poems from the mid-fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries, along with the Ottoman Turkish texts and, new to this expanded edition, photographs of printed, lithographed, and hand-written Ottoman script versions of several of the texts--a bonus for those studying Ottoman Turkish. Biographies of the poets and background information on Ottoman history and literature complete the volume.

Author : Walter G. Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295961538
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry's Voice, Society's Song written by Walter G. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter G. Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ottoman Lyric Poetry written by Walter G. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a treasure-filled storehouse to which we have lost the key, Ottoman lyric poetry is almost unknown today, particularly among Western readers. Yet, during the centuries in which the Ottoman Empire was one of the world's great powers, poetry was its central medium of cultural expression. From love to the most profound search for spiritual truth to impassioned pleas for employment or largesse, everything that touched people deeply was expressed in poetry. This anthology, the first major English translation of Ottoman poetry in nearly a century, unlocks the storehouse. The authors offer free verse translations of 75 lyric poems (whose original Ottoman Turkish texts are also included), spanning a period from the fourteenth through the early twentieth centuries. In addition to the poems, the authors provide concise background information on Ottoman history and literature, informative notes to the poems, and brief biographies of the poets. These materials give students and general readers sufficient context to understand the poems, without burdening the reading experience.

Author : Elias John Wilkinson Gibb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ottoman Literature written by Elias John Wilkinson Gibb and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of notable poetry and poets in the history of Turkey. Some discussion of the general character, the verse-form, the meters, and the development of Ottoman poetry is included in the beginning of the collection.

Author : Walter G. Andrews
Publisher : Bibliotheca Islamic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Ottoman Poetry written by Walter G. Andrews and published by Bibliotheca Islamic. This book was released on 1976 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elias John Wilkinson Gibb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Ottoman Poetry written by Elias John Wilkinson Gibb and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elias John Wilkinson Gibb (1857-1901) was a Scottish Orientalist who was born and educated in Glasgow. After studying Arabic and Persian, he developed an interest in Turkish language and literature, especially poetry, and in 1882 he published Ottoman Poems Translated into English Verse in the Original Forms. This was a forerunner to the six-volume classic presented here, A History of Ottoman Poetry, published in London between 1900 and 1909. Gibb died in London of scarlet fever at the age of 44, and only the first volume of his masterpiece appeared before his death. His family entrusted to his friend Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926), a distinguished Orientalist in his own right who had made a special study of Babism, the task of posthumously publishing the five remaining volumes. Browne characterized the work as "one of the most important, if not the most important, critical studies of any Muhammadan literature produced in Europe during the last half-century." The first volume contains a long and compelling introduction by Gibb on the entire subject, in which he argues that Ottoman poetry often rose and fell in tandem with Ottoman power. Gibb divides Ottoman poetry into two great schools, the Old or Asiatic (circa 1300-1859), which generally was characterized by its deference to Persian influences; and the New or European (from 1859 onward), which was influenced by French and other Western poetry. According to Gibb, the Old or Asiatic School went through a four periods: a formative period (1300-1450); a period (1450-1600) in which works were modeled after the Persian poet Jami; a period (1600-1700) dominated by the influences of Persian poets Urfi Shirazi and Saʼib Tabrizi; and a period of uncertainty that lasted until 1859. The European school that followed was inaugurated by Ibrahim Sinasi (1826-71), who in 1859 produced a small but momentous collection of French poetry translated into Turkish verse. The influence of the collection was far-reaching and eventually changed the course of Ottoman poetry. Gibb is known for his masterful translations that brilliantly render into English both the meaning and the form of Ottoman, Persian, and Arabic poetry. For almost a century after his death, a family trust financed the Gibb Memorial Series of editions and translations into English of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish texts.

Author : Walter G. Andrews
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822334248
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Beloveds written by Walter G. Andrews and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExamines the "golden age" of the culture of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century, exploring sexuality, gender and literary society, as well as the demographics, economics, politics, society of love and other cultural productions of the Ottoman/div

Author : Elias John Wilkinson Gibb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Ottoman Poetry written by Elias John Wilkinson Gibb and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elias John Wilkinson Gibb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book A History of Ottoman Poetry written by Elias John Wilkinson Gibb and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christiane Czygan
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847008552
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Download or read book An Iridescent Device: Premodern Ottoman Poetry written by Christiane Czygan and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten experts in premodern literature and history examine the style, genre, and performance of sixteenth century Ottoman poetry. A large number of poems, including a newly discovered imperial poem collection and the work of a poet fallen into oblivion, are discussed with regard to their multifarious functions and their contemporary lyrical appeal. Though most of these poets worked in conventional settings many of the articles in this volume point out how they broke taboos, glossed over violence, and promoted or questioned political rule, even as they appealed to their listeners on an emotional level. The authors provide ample evidence for the importance attributed to certain cities and places, as well as local affiliations and networks. These analyses show how premodern poetry operated as a tool of communication and formed an integral part of premodern social and political life.