Specimens of the popular poetry of Persia
Subtitle: as found in the adventures and improvisations of Kurroglou, the bandit-minstrel of northern Persia and in the songs of the people inhabiting the shores of the Caspian Sea
By: orally collected and translated, with philological and historical notes by Alexander Chodzko
Publisher: The Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
Subjects: Kou (Poem); Folk literature, Persian -- Translations into English.; Folk literature, English -- Translations from Persian.
Table of contents: title: VII
label: PREFACE; title: 3
label: INTRODUCTION TO KURROGLOU; title: 17-344
label: ADVENTURES AND IMPROVISATIONS OF KURROGLOU; title: 347
label: POPULAR SONGS OF THE ASTRAKAN TATARS; title: 372
label: THREE SONGS OF THE KALMUKS; title: 379
label: TURKMAN SONGS; title: 401
label: SONGS OF THE PERSIAN TURKS; title: 417
label: PERSIAN SONGS; title: 453
label: SONGS OF THE GHILANIS, &c.; title: 504
label: DITTO OF THE RUDBAR HIGHLANDERS; title: 506
label: DITTO OF THE TAULISHES; title: 510
label: DITTO OF THE MAZENDERANIS; title: 521
label: EXAMPLES OF THE TEXTS; title: 583
label: NINE PERSIAN AIRS, ARRANGED FOR THE PIANO-FORTE