History of Ottoman Poetry, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History of Ottoman Poetry, Vol. 2 The sad circumstances which led to my becoming responsible for the editing of this and the succeeding volumes of the History of Ottoman Poetry are known to all those who are interested in Oriental scholarship, and are fully set forth in the Athenaeum for January i 8, 1902, pp. 81 - 82, and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for April, 1902, pp. 486 - 489. Nevertheless it seems to me desirable to begin my Preface to this the first posthumous volume of my late friends great and admirable work with a brief notice of his life, a life wholly devoted and consecrated to learning and fruitful labour of research, but cut short, alas! in its very prime by premature and unexpected death. Elias John Wilkinson Gibb was born at Glasgow on June 3, 1857, and received his education in that city, first at Park School under Dr. Collier, the author of the History of England, and afterwards at the University. It appears that from an early age linguistic studies especially attracted him, but I have not been able to ascertain exactly how and when his attention first became directed to the Orient, though I believe that here, as in many other cases, it was the fascination of the Arabian Nights which first cast over him the spell of the East. 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.