Bedros Tourian (1851-1872) is generally acknowledged as the creator of the modern Western Armenian poetic language. Strongly inspired by the French Romantics, Tourian produced in the last few years before his death a corpus of forty-odd poems. They have been the touchstone and primer for generations of Armenian symbolists, decadents, and revolutionary realists.
Most of Tourian's lyrics address the agony of unrequited love, illness, and the expectancy of death. But they also include visionary flights whose intricacy of language and imagery hark back to the earliest sources of the Armenian tradition.
Tourian's complete lyrics are available here for the first time in English, along with an analysis of his poetics and roots and evocations of the fabulous polyglot metropolis of his birth.
| ISBN: | 9780935411225 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 2006 |
| Author: | Petros Duryan, James R Russell |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations an imprint of Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 383 pages |
| Series: | Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: poetry and poets |
Bedros Tourian (1851-1872) is generally acknowledged as the creator of the modern Western Armenian poetic language. Strongly inspired by the French Romantics, Tourian produced in the last few years before his death a corpus of forty-odd poems.
Bosphorus Nights features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry and poets
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Bosphorus Nights was written by Petros Duryan, James R Russell and published by Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations an imprint of Harvard University Press
Bosphorus Nights has 383 pages
Yes it is part of Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies series