Bosphorus Nights: The Complete Lyric Poems of Bedros Tourian (Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0935411224 ISBN 13: 9780935411225

Publisher: Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

James R. Russell is Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0935411224
• ISBN 13: 9780935411225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 383