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A collection of some of the most loved Armenian poems translated to the English language. This is the definitive book of Armenian classic poetry in translation, dating from the 5th to 20th centuries. This selection of poems has been composed and translated to the English language by notable Armenians and non-Armenians. These poems take readers on a journey through a broad range of raw human emotion about life and death, happiness and pain, love and loss, and courage and tenderness.
Translated into English by Alice Stone Blackwell, a pioneer of Women's Rights Movement and an advocate of the Armenian cause, the volume truly depicts the Armenian poetic literature and the dept and richness of Armenian poetry. It contains more than one hundred thirty poems from well represented Armenian poets, making this volume an informative as well as a pleasurable reading.
Translated into English by Alice Stone Blackwell, a pioneer of Women's Rights Movement and an advocate of the Armenian cause, the volume truly depicts the Armenian poetic literature and the dept and richness of Armenian poetry. It contains more than one hundred thirty poems from well represented Armenian poets, making this volume an informative as well as a pleasurable reading.
Excerpt from Armenian Poems: Rendered Into English Verse The first was the conviction that the sym pathy already felt for the Armenians in their martyrdom at the hands of the Turks would be deepened by an acquaintance with the temper and genius of the people, as shown in their poetry. The second was the fact that Armenian poetic liter ature, while well worthy to be known, was practically inaccessible to English-speaking readers. Of the sixty poems in this book, only two. So far as I can learn, have ever been put into English verse. The majority have never been translated, either in verse or prose. No attempt has been made to imitate the Armenian metres. The aim has been to reproduce the mean...