Excerpt from History of Ottoman Poetry, Vol. 3
This volume, though it had not, like vol. II, undergone a final revision for press at the author’s hands, is nevertheless entirely his work, only here and there retouched by me (and that always as slightly as possible) during the careful revision to which I submitted it before placing it in the printer’s hands. All that I have added, besides this Preface, is the Appendices; and even here I found the author’s rough notes ready to my hand for Appendix A, while, as for Appendix B, the texts of every single poem translated in this volume were fully and fairly copied out in my friend’s clear and careful hand for the volume of original texts which will con clude the History. Thus, while the writing out of Appendix A. From the often blurred and indistinctly written pencil notes, which alone served as my guide in this part of the work, was laborious and difficult, the construction of Appendix B. Was singularly easy in comparison with the preparation of the corresponding Appendix in vol. II, where the poems translated appeared not to have been copied out, and in many cases had to be recovered with infinite trouble from the manuscripts in my late friend’s collection.
I must now speak of the remaining portion of the work, and offer some forecast as the number and scope of the future volumes. The manuscript material which remains to be examined, revised, arranged and edited, is contained in sixteen packets (excluding the texts), of which six are labelled Transition Period seven Romanticist Period, and three Modern Period. The two former periods run more or less contemporaneously, and would perhaps be better described as Schools, and in the arrangement of the thirteen chapters devoted to them I anticipate some considerable difficulty.
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