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The second volume in E.J.W. Gibb's classic study of Ottoman Poetry, reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead, covers the period c.1450 to the early 16th century.
Gibb's History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 to 1909, provided the first extended account in English of Ottoman Turkish literature. Based on an impressively wide reading of over five centuries of Ottoman classical poetry and of literary critical works produced by Ottoman commentators, it conveyed not only fascinating information but also a deeply informed understanding of the cultural world of educated Ottomans. Gibb selected and analysed epic poems, religious verse, romances, panegyrics and, above all, lyric poetry. He examined the biographies and social contexts of poets, and he prefaced his work with a much-admired introductory account of Ottoman mysticism and religious philosophy. He included throughout the volumes a wealth of explanatory notes designed to help 'the ordinary English reader' appreciate this little-known culture. The History is a classic work which remains a valued introduction to its subject.
This volume is part of a six-volume set. Volumes I-IV focus purely on poetry and poets, while Volume V includes additionally 100 pages of indices to the volumes, prepared by Reynold A. Nicholson. Volume VI, the final volume, comprises the Ottoman text of poems included in the preceding volumes.
Contents
Preface by Christine Woodhead
Editor's Preface to Volume II
Author's Preface to Volume II
BOOK III: THE SECOND PERIOD
1. The Character of the Poetry of the Second Period
2. The Conqueror and his Court
3. Ahmed Pasha and the Inauguration of the Second Period
4. Prince Jem
5. Nejátí
6. The Poetesses Mihrí and Zeyneb
7. Hamdí
8. Mesíhí
9. Sultán Selím 'the Grim'
10. Ja'fer Chelebí
11. Ahí
12. Rewání
13. Kemál Pasha·záde
14. Minor Poets, Lyric and Mystic
15. Minor Poets, Mesnevi writers
APPENDIX A: The Hierarchy of the 'Ulemá
APPENDIX B: First lines of the Turkish texts of the Poems translated in vol. II
