Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Pseudonym: “Bāky.” Born into poverty in Constantinople. Father was a muezzin. Known as “Sultânüş-şuarâ,” or “Sultan of Poets.” Poems translated into German by Austrian orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall in the early nineteenth century. Biographical information: Stanford J. Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808, Cambridge University Press, 1976, pp. 148-149; E. J. W. Gibb, Ottoman Poems: Translated Into English Verse in the Original Forms, with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Notes, Trübner & Company, 1882, pp. 201-5. (SCM)