Yaḥyā Dawlatābādī’s Contribution to Persian Poetic Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9979358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amr Taher Ahmed (Mondes Iranien et Indien, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 557-586 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210862.2018.1437342 |
| OpenAlex | W2796761400 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
In 1912, Yaḥyā Dawlatābādī composed two poems, the form of which diverged greatly from the canonical rules of tradition. Both poems were based on syllabic meters. Critics and historians of modern Persian literature have given these poems little consideration, and discussed them merely from the point of view of metrics. When compared to the great modernist endeavors in the poetry of the time, these pieces were judged severely, or altogether disavowed. This paper aims to show that, beyond mere metrical audacity, Yaḥyā Dawlatābādī’s syllabic poems were in fact innovative. As the article argues, they were born out of the same quest for fresh poetic forms that induced contemporaneous modernists to create new, individualized poetic patterns
Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Persian · Poetry · Syllabic verse · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |