Fitnat-Khanim (c. 1725–1780)
Fitnat-Khanim (c. 1725–1780)
Turkish poet. Name variations: Zubeyda Fitnat-Khanim. Born c. 1725 in Turkey; died 1780; dau. of Sheik al-Islam.
Considered the most important woman poet of the Ottoman school, was highly thought of by fellow poets with whom she exchanged odes and repartee; wrote lyric poetry using imagery from traditional Persian verse.
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BORN: 1844, Metz, France
DIED: 1896, Paris, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Fiction, poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
Saturnine Poems (1866)
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Poet, educator
Robert Hayden preferred to think of himself not as a black poet, but rather as an American poet whose work sp…
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