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Turkish Poetry


Turkish poetry is translation is found at ottoman souvenir, turkish poetry, turkce siir and turkish poetry in translation.

Recommended books include Penguin Book of Turkish Verse (1978), W.J.W. Gibb's A History of Ottoman Poetry (1900-09), W.G. Andrews's An Introduction to Ottoman Poetry (1976) and Poetry's Voice, Society's Song: Ottoman Lyric Poetry (1985), and J. Goodwin's Lords of the Horizon: A History of the Ottoman Empire (2001)

Later Turkish poetry adopted the concerns of western literature, and its poets often read well in translation: Ahmet Hasim, Nazim Hikmet, Bedri Rahmi Eyubogl, Behcet Necatigil, and Nazim Hikmet to name a few.

 

Fuzuli

Fuzuli was only one of a galaxy of outstanding Divan poets, women included — Baqi, Sultan Suleyman, Hayali, Tashcali Yahya Bey, Ruhi-i Baghdad, Naili, Nedim, Seyh Galip. Similar lists compiled for the other schools would at least mention Suleyman Celebi and Yunus Emre.

 

 

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