HISTORICAL POETRY

The penetration of Mughal power into previously
autonomous regional kingdoms produced significant political,
but also literary effects. In this article, I trace the advent of the
Mughal political order to the princely state of Orcha (located in
what is now north-western Madhya Pradesh) through the eyes
of Ke´savd¯as (fl. 1600), the leading poet from that court.
Ke´savd¯as is famous in Hindi literary circles as one of the
progenitors of the Brajbhasha r¯ıti tradition, a constellation of
courtly poetic and intellectual practices that flourished in a
climate of mixed Mughal and sub-imperial patronage. There is a
pronounced tendency to think of Ke´savd¯as’s work (and that of
most r¯ıti poets) as a corpus of baroque, purely decorative poems
largely comprising time-worn erotic and devotional themes.
This preliminary study of Ke´savd¯as’s three historical poems will
help to complicate such an understanding by bringing into our
conceptual purview a fuller range of r¯ıti textual expression.
These lesser known works by one of the foremost r¯ıti poets are
certainly striking for their literary accomplishments, but they
also serve as an invaluable window onto a critical moment in
Orcha history. They constitute the perfect testing ground for the
enterprise of retrieving historical meaning from the literary
sources that were the dominant form of pre-modern Indian
courtly self-expression, and the methodology employed here is
to critically engage both aesthetic and historical perspectives
simultaneously.

Η μελέτη διαρθρώνεται σε τρία μέρη, ακολουθώντας τον παραγωγικό τρόπο συλλογισμού, από τις ευρύτερες γνωσιολογικές και επιστημολογικές προκείμενες του θεωρητικού στοχασμού γύρω από τις σχέσεις Λογοτεχνίας και Ιστορίας, στη διατύπωση συγκεκριμένων διδακτικών εφαρμογών, και στις ειδικότερες όψεις των σχέσεων αυτών στα κείμενα. Στο πρώτο μέρος εξετάζεται η σχέση Ιστορίας – Λογοτεχνίας ως προς την εποπτεία της πραγματικότητας.  Στο δεύτερο μέρος αναλύεται η ιδέα της «κριτικής αγωγής στον πολιτισμό» και προτείνονται τρόποι με τους οποίους η “συνομιλία” Λογοτεχνίας και Ιστορίας μπορεί να συμβάλει σε αυτή την αγωγή, με παραδείγματα σταχυολογημένα από όλο το χρονικό φάσμα της νεοελληνικής ιστορίας και λογοτεχνίας (από τα ακριτικά και πτωχοπροδρομικά ποιήματα ώς τη μεταπολεμική λογοτεχνία). Τέλος, στο τρίτο μέρος γίνεται ειδική αναφορά στο εμβληματικό παράδειγμα της «ιστορικής ποίησης» του Καβάφη. Μέσα από την ανάλυση αποδεικνύεται ότι η ιστορική αίσθηση και ποιητική του Καβάφη είναι έκδηλα διαφορετική από εκείνη των ελλαδιτών ομοτέχνων του και εντυπωσιακά επίκαιρη για εμάς σήμερα, ως εκ τούτου πρόσφορη για την κριτική αγωγή στον σύγχρονο πολιτισμό.

Writing the Barbarian Past examines the presentation of the non-Roman, pre-Christian past in Latin and vernacular historical narratives composed between c.550 and c.1000: the Gothic histories of Jordanes and Isidore of Seville, the Fredegar chronicle, the Liber Historiae Francorum, Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum, Waltharius, and Beowulf; it also examines the evidence for an oral vernacular tradition of historical narrative in this period.
In this book, Shami Ghosh analyses the relative significance granted to the Roman and non-Roman inheritances in narratives of the distant past, and what the use of this past reveals about the historical consciousness of early medieval elites, and demonstrates that for them, cultural identity was conceived of in less binary terms than in most modern scholarship.

Augustan poetry is perhaps the most classic of all European classics. Its literary
vision of gradual advance (back) to Golden-Age peace and prosperity has taken
center stage in the process of defining European humanism. Post-Augustan epic
poets like Lucan, however, also seem to doubt whether humanity can be taught
by letters. This has often been interpreted as anti-classicist and, hence, antihumanistic.
However, can the ideals of civilizing literature, in fact, be proven
wrong? Is there no other way to deal with the challenges of humanism than to give
in? A promising interpretive approach to this question is studying the specific
metapoetic potential of historical poetry. Literary characters of such poems can
‘realistically’ appear as readers; often, their success or failure may be directly
related to the literary education they show. This opens up a space for a particular
kind of intertextuality. In acutely reflecting the impact of their reference texts,
historical epic poems have made a distinctive contribution to the classification of
the classics, i.e., the defense of humanity.

Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period’s own "aesthetic-historical culture" which amalgamated fact and fiction in ways modern historians would consider counterfactual: a culture where imaginative historical prose, poetry and drama self-consciously rivalled the accounts of royal chroniclers and the dispatches of diplomatic envoys; a culture dominated by a notion of truth in which skilful construction of the argument and exemplarity took precedence over factual accuracy. Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History investigates this grey area backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of Golden Age aesthetic-historical works which cannot be satisfactorily described as either works of literature or works of historiography but which belong in between these later strictly separate categories.

This article offers a reappraisal of Nayacandra Sūri’s Sanskrit epic,
Hammīra-mahākāvya, narrating the heroic but unsuccessful struggle of
the warrior-king Hammīra Chauhan of Ranthambhor (r.1283–1301) against the Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khalji (r. 1296–1316). Created at the Gwalior court of Vīrama Tomar (r.1401–1423), this historical court epic stands out in the history of Sanskrit poetry for its tragic ending. Challenging conventional socio-political readings of the epic as a eulogy of an admirable Hindu/Rajput/ksatriya hero, this article foregrounds the poem’s playful and tragic literary logic, arguing that it can be read as a subversive response to more overtly heroic presentations of Hammīra elsewhere. As such, it reveals the poet’s underlying concern to provoke an estrangement from the ideals of ‘Rajputizing’ elites and their obsession with heroic pride and fame. I show this to be the case through a literary analysis of Nayacandra’s poem against its specific historical background, namely the emergence of an independent Tomar kingdom in Gwalior.

Chairil Anwar was born July 26, 1922 in Medan and died 28 April 1949 in Jakarta. He was educated MULO (did not finish). He was editor of "Gelanggang" (Ruang Kebudayaan Siasat between 1948-1949) and editor of Gema Suasana (1949).
The collection of poems : Deru Campur Debu (1949), and Tiga Menguak Takdir (together Rival Apin and Asrul Sani, 1950). His poems collected by HB Jassin in the book : Chairil Anwar Pelopor Angkatan 45 (1956). And Among translation others: Pulanglah Dia si Anak Hilang (by Andre Gide, 1948), and Kena Gempur (by John Steinbeck, 1951).

“A Poem about Isolation at Home” (Qaṣīda min al-Ḥajr al-Manzilī) by Iyas Nasser, a Palestinian poet.
The poem, which was published by the Palestinian daily, Al-Quds, 13th April 2020, focuses on the human reality during the Coronavirus pandemic, and enhances the public awareness of life value.
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قصيدة من الحَجْر المنزليّ – إياس ناصر
صحيفة القدس الفلسطينيّة، 13 نيسان 2020.
تُعنى القصيدة بالواقع الذي فرضته جائحة كورونا، وترمي إلى تنمية الوعي الاجتماعيّ لأهمّيّة  الوقاية والحرص على الحياة في هذه المحنة.

‘Their foolish pride there’s nought can stop,
Improvement’s all the go;
Unseemly’s everything th’s old.
So all that’s old’s laid low’
The Crow’s Account of Newcastle, 1812

On returning to Newcastle, after nearly thirty years absent, an unknown author found the town much changed, and not necessarily for the better. Between 1740 and 1830 Newcastle upon Tyne was steadily transformed by the Corporation into an economically robust centre for the coal trade.
This paper will examine the level to which the observations of change in The Crow’s Account were justified. Results will be presented from my project’s GIS exercise that combines historic maps with rate and trade books to visualise how space was changed and how this affected the inhabitants of Newcastle between 1740 and 1830.

W 2006 r. światło dzienne ujrzał drugi tom serii Polonika w zbiorach archi-wum narodowego Szwecji, pt. Sprawa Smoleńska. Jest zbiór literatury okolicz-nościowej poświęconej Smoleńskowi z 1 połowy XVII w., wydany przez Martę M. Kacprzak. Jak każdą inicjatywę poszerzającą bazę źródłową, należy ją przyjąć z zadowoleniem. Dużą zaletą tej książki, jest publikacja utworów znajdujących

In the winter of 2014-15 I began translating the work of Norwegian-American poet Julius B. Baumann (1869-1923). Reading up on the Nordic languages (and relying extensively on digital copies of turn-of-the-century Norwegian-English dictionaries) I translated ten pieces from Baumann’s Fra Vidderne: New Poems (Augsburg Publishing House, 1915; Google Books). As far as I know, this is the first time these poems have appeared in English.