Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/uVpq9O Ottoman Lyric Poetry An Anthology By: Walter G. Andrews Publisher: University of Washington Press Print ISBN: 9780295985954, 029598595X eText ISBN: 9780295800936, 0295800933 Format: PDF Available from $ 24.95 USD SKU 9780295800936 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.
