Hikmet - Akademik Edebiyat Dergisi

Abstract

In studies in the field of classical Turkish literature, the most important sources of reference for gathering information about the lives and works of poets can be considered as biographies and peonies. The information in these sources on subjects such as the birth and death dates and places of the poets, their family circles, education, professions, works and poetic talents contain important data for researchers. The information in these sources is of utmost importance, especially when providing information about the poet's life and works. The information here is compared and confirmed with the existing works and data at hand to form the final information about the poet's life and works. The information in such works has special importance in several senses. First, mentioning the poet in biographical sources from his own time or immediately after and finding information about him allows his life to be written in a more reliable way. Secondly, mentioning the names of the poet's works and providing information about them allows us to have information about works that have been lost in the historical process or have not survived to the present day in some way or have not yet been discovered. In addition, in biographical books, the presence of examples of poems by poets whose works have not survived to the present day helps us to have information and ideas about their poems and aspects of poetry. In this study, poet biographies in Vekayi’u’l-fuzala were scanned; their lives, works and examples of poetry were examined and their contributions to poet biography and text publication studies were examined. Based on this, the importance of biographical studies in terms of literary history and text publication studies was evaluated.