![]() ![]() Poetry was the avocation of the great lawyer's leisure,Īnd it won him the admiring friendship of the four successive Sultans who High rank and a student of the Persian and Arabic poets.Īre accounted by the Turks inferior to the great lyric poet Baqi (1526-1600).īaqi was at first a saddler, but he studied law and rose to the highest legal Woman of rank is carefully secluded, no scandal ever attached to her personal List, Mihri has been called the Turkish Sappho. Of the Turkish Empire, both in literature and in military glory. Nabi were also noted singers of the sixteenth century, which was the great age He is usually named as the second greatest of Turkish poets. Persian literature and drew his themes perhaps from ancient Zoroastrian tales. Lamii was the scholar poet, a dervish or monk who delved into the older Of poets accounted of the highest rank, the earliest was Nejati ![]() That of Yaziji-Oglu (1449), called the Book of Mohammed. Sheykhi (1426) on the loves of the maiden Shireen. ![]() Among Turkish epic poets, the earliest is Ahmedi (died 1412), who The collected poems of Ashiq are called a "divan," the usual PersianĪnd Turkish word for such collections but very little of the divan of Ashiq has The passion of an unknown lover, not apparently for woman, but for life and God. Means merely "the lover." In other words, Turkish poetry begins with Poets in somewhat chronological order, beginning with theirįirst poet Ashiq, who died in 1332 and whose very ![]()
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