History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume IV

Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, a scholar who devoted his life to researching the history, literature, philosophy and religion of the Turks, Persians and Arabs. His particular interest was the poetry of Ottoman Turkey, the fruits of which were published, mostly posthumously, in the six-volume History of Ottoman Poetry. Christine Woodhead is Honorary Fellow in Ottoman History at the University of Durham.

• Preface by Christine WoodheadBOOK V: THE FOURTH, OR TRANSITION PERIOD1. The early transition Age. Ahmed III: Sábit:'Nedím.2. The third and last Persian school: Sámí: Ráshid: Hámí: Rahmí: 'Asim: Nahífí: Neylí: Sheykh Rizá3. Romanticists contemporary with the third Persian school: Seyyid Vehbf: Belígh: Nevres4. The Romanticists (continued): Hashmet: Fitnet Khánim: Kání5. The Romanticists (continued): Sheykh Ghálib6. The Romanticists (continued): Khulúsí Efendi: Esrár Dede: Khoja Nesh'et: Pertev Efendi7. The Culmination of the Romanticist Movement: Fázil Bey: Sunbul-záde Vehbi: Surúrí8. The Poets of the Later Romanticism: Wásif: 'Izzet Mollá9. The Romanticists (continued): 'Akif Pasha and Pertev Pasha10. The Romanticists (continued): 'Ayní: Dánish: Jávíd: Sa'íd: Táhir Selám: Leylá Khánim: Sheref Khánim: 'Arif HikmetAPPENDIX: First lines of the Turkish text of the Poems translated in Vol. IV

A pioneer in the analytic study of Ottoman poetry, Gibb granted Ottoman Turkish literature unprecedented attention. Even within the Orientalist, evolutionary discourse that frames his colossal history, he emerges as an enthusiastic, perceptive reader who “reckoned a critical faculty” with individual poets and works. His History is not only a chronicle, but an early, astonishing instance of modernist literary historiography.