Poetry
Dîvân
Not translated into English
Yunus Emre · 1300
Synopsis
Poems, four hundred and seventeen according to the Diyanet encyclopaedia, designated as ilâhi, nefes or nutuk, written for the most part in the syllabic metre of popular poetry, the rest in quantitative metre. They deal with the love of God, divine unity, the perfect man and annihilation in God; Britannica speaks of divine love and human destiny, in a direct, almost austere style. The language is close to the speech of central and western Anatolia.
Context
According to the Diyanet, the editions differ in the number of pieces: 355 in Toprak, 273 in Öztelli, 326 in Timurtaş, who attributes 37 of them to another poet of the same name. Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı produced the first serious edition in 1943 and 1948, and Mustafa Tatçı a critical edition in 1990. The oldest manuscripts date from the fourteenth century, and the ilâhi were set to music and sung in the dervish lodges. The Diyanet distinguishes several Yunuses, among them an Âşık Yunus who died in Bursa at the beginning of the fifteenth century, often confused with the poet.
Who it is for
Short poems, translated into French as early as 1963 by Yves Régnier for Gallimard, then in several selections, one of them bilingual.
Prizes and reception
Britannica notes its decisive influence on later Turkish mystics and on the poets of the national revival after 1910.
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