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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 many of the original manuscripts. Biographies of the poets and background information on Ottoman history and literature complete the volume.

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Interdisciplinary studies Regional studies

• Full title: Ottoman Lyric Poetry
• Subtitle: An Anthology
• Author: Walter G. Andrews, Najaat Black, Mehmet Kalpakli
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• EAN: 9780295985954
• ISBN: 029598595X
• ID: 04874617
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Weight: 486 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 151 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. April 2006

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