Hovanes Tlkurantsi ( armenian Հովհաննես Թլկուրան годы ; birth and death years unknown [1] ) - Armenian poet of the XIV-XV centuries [2] .
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Biography and Creativity
Born in the village of Tlkuran near Cilicia [2] . Came from a monastic environment [3] . The poet’s creativity is didactic poems and songs , which touch on the theme of love and nature [2] . He also wrote music for his works [3] . Tlkuranzi frees the Armenian love lyrics from allegorical and conventions, openly singing the beauty of a woman and love [1] , continued the tradition of antifeudal secular poetry [4] . The poems of Tlkurantzi are distinguished by a vivid imagery, a storm of feelings. The poet’s works gained deserved fame during his lifetime. On the basis of folklore, he also created epic works. Thus, Tlkuranzi became the first Armenian poet who processed the material of oral folk art [5] . The most popular of them, “Songs of the Brave Liparit,” is based on the legend of the struggle of the Armenian military leader against the Egyptian Mamelukes and his tragic death. In the poet’s work, love lyrics also stand out: “Song of love”, “I met a beauty unexpectedly”, etc., moralizing verses [1] , about the dangers of wine, about false friends, etc. In the work “The Priest’s Son and Mullah’s Daughter” talks about the love of a Christian and a Muslim.
Stronger than the cross is your grace |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Brief Literary Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. A. A. Surkov. - M. , 1968. - T. 5. - S. 377.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Hovhannes Tlkuranzi // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A. M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- ↑ 1 2 History of world literature . - M .: Science, 1985. - T. 3. - p. 531-535.
- ↑ Brief literary encyclopedia / Ch. ed. A. A. Surkov. - M. , 1962. - T. 1. - p. 306-318.
- ↑ Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia . - Yer. , 1980. - T. 6. - S. 380. (in Armenian)
Literature
- “Poetry of Armenia from Ancient Times to the Present Day” (collection) / Ed. V. Ya. Bryusov. M., 1916; p. 205-206.
- "Poetry of the peoples of the USSR IV-XVIII centuries" (collection) / Entry. article and comp. L. Arutyunova and V. Taneyeva. M., 1972 (" Library of World Literature ", Volume 55th); p. 291-298.
- Yovhannes Tlkuranci and the Mediaeval Armenian Liric Tradition, by James R․ Russell (Universty of Pennsylvania, Armenian Texts and Studies, 1987)