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In the poem, Armenian love poetry is free from religious morality. [155] His rich literary legacy includes both secular and religious works. Soulful laments and hymns dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Gregory the Illuminator, Nerses the Great, and other saints expressed the author's personal drama and his ideas of national revival.
Armenian literature (Armenian: Հայ գրականություն), produced in the Armenian language, was mainly dedicated to national themes and has evolved distinct traditions in terms of style, imagery, and form.
Daredevils of Sassoun [1] (Armenian: Սասնա ծռեր Sasna cṙer, also spelled Daredevils of Sasun) is an Armenian heroic epic poem in four cycles (parts), with its main hero and story better known as David of Sassoun, which is the story of one of the four parts.
Classical Armenian is the literary language of Armenia written during the 5th to 18th centuries. 5th century Movses Khorenatsi depicted in a 14th-century Armenian manuscript. Mesrop Mashtots — theologian, inventor of the Armenian alphabet; Koryun — historian; Yeznik of Kolb — theologian; Agathangelos — historian; Faustus of Byzantium ...
The hayren (Armenian: հայրեն) is an old form of Armenian folk poetry. Hayrens are typically composed of four lines with each of the four lines containing 15 syllables. Each line divides into two half-lines that consist of seven and eight syllables.
On 25 September 2017, the Museum of Book printing was opened inside the National Library of Armenia, where the history of book publishing is displayed in six halls; The Origins of the Book, The Armenian alphabet, The Early adopters of Armenian book printing, Diaspora of the Armenian book publishing, Typography and Immortality of Writing. As an ...
Shiraz is an author of about forty poetry books and translations. His rich vocabulary and sensitive style, enhanced by folk and colloquial elements, [13] made his poetry one of the highest achievements of Armenian literature. Critics consider many of his works to be masterpieces.
Krikor Beledian (Armenian: Գրիգոր Պըլտեան, born Beirut, 1945) is a prolific Armenian poet, novelist, and literary critic living in France. After graduating from the Armenian Lyceum Nshan Palandjian of Beirut, he moved to Paris in 1967, where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He has written dozens of volumes of poetry, novels ...