A History of Ottoman Poetry, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A History of Ottoman Poetry, Vol. 4 With the completion of this fourth volume of my late friend's History of Ottoman Poetry, which brings us to the end of the ancien regime, and almost into our own times, the character of what remains of my task undergoes a material change. Up to this point I have had before me a manuscript, which, however much the author, had he lived, might have modified or added to it, was essentially complete, and needed only trifling alterations and occasional notes. For the period which remains, the period, that is to say, of the New School, who deserted Persian for French models, and almost re-created the Turkish language, so greatly did they change its structure and the literary ideals of their countrymen, only three chapters were to be discovered amongst my friend's papers. Of these, the first, entitled "the Dawn of a New Era", treats of the character and inception of the movement, and, in a general way, of its chief representatives, viz. Shinasí Efendi, Ziya Pasha, Kemal Bey, 'Abdu'l-Haqq Hamid Bey, Ahmed Midhat Efendi, Ahmed Vefíq Pasha and Ebu'z-Ziya Tevfíq Bey, the second discusses the life and work of Shinasí Efendi (A. D. 1826 - 1871), and the third is devoted to Ziya Pasha (A. D. 1830 - 1880). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.