Ottoman Poets and Poetics in the Sixteenth Century HARDBACK 9781399537612

Ottoman Poets and Poetics in the Sixteenth CenturyIntroducing Asik elebi's and Latifi's Biographical Dictionaries\nAuthor(s): Kristof D'hulster\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399537612, 978-1399537612\nSynopsis\nThis book offers the first-ever partial English translation and commentary of what are arguably the two most important Ottoman biographical dictionaries of poets: the tezkires of As??k C?elebi and Latifi. While tezkires are mostly culled for their factual data, this book focuses on the non-entry materials, especially the prefaces. These offer intimate glimpses into the authors lives, charting their professional ambitions, frustrations and feuds, set against the backdrop of the sixteenth-century Ottoman literary world a world in which patrimonial relations made and broke careers, poetry was appraised, attacked, monetised and stolen, and the ambitions of aspiring poets were fuelled and.