| ID | 160286 |
| Title Proper | Yaḥyā Dawlatābādī’s contribution to Persian Poetic modernity |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ahmed, Amr Taher |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | Iranian Studies Vol. 51, No.4; Jul 2018: p.557-586 |
| Journal Source | Iranian Studies Vol: 51 No 4 |
| Key Words | Persian Poetry ; Yaḥyā Dawlatābādī ; Syllabic Poetry ; Literary Modernity |