KÜLTÜRK

Öz

Divan literature, which has been in Ottoman society for centuries, continued its existence in the 19th century with some renewal movements. In this century, Mehmed Süreyyâ was a prominent figure in Ottoman historiography and biography who was appreciated by literary circles in addition to his bureaucratic identity. In this study, Mehmed Süreyyâ, who shed light on various events of the period with his historical works, transcribed "Gülzâr", which has not been published before and kept in the form of a cönk, but which is a poetry collection in terms of content, and analyzed the poems in the collection. While it was determined that Süreyyâ wrote poems in the Divan literature genre in terms of form and meter, it was observed that some of his poems included the new topics of the Tanzimat literature that prevailed in the 19th century. It has been determined that Süreyyâ, who was an important prose writer in this period, which is accepted as a transitional century, wrote in the field of poetry, on the axis of poetry from the classics, and that his poems were connected to the tradition in terms of subject matter. There are 14 poems in total in the corpus. The types of these poems are as follows: 9 ghazals, 2 stanzas, 2 short masnavi and 1 müstezat. In the study, firstly, Süreyyâ's life and works are given, Gülzâr is introduced in terms of both structure and content, then the transcription of the manuscript is given and finally the facsimile of the manuscript is added. Our aim with this study is to bring this previously unpublished poetry collection of Mehmed Süreyyâ, who stands out with his nasir identity, to the field.