Armenian poetry stretches from ancient, mythical and legendary times, the stocks of Noah's Ark and up to the present, causing frightened, days. Given an order to introduce a wide range of readers with the vertices of this unique phenomenon, of course we had to start with the epic, then walk the paths of medieval Armenian poetry, up to the modern and contemporary - the path is thorny, but it's not terrible, when he leads through the thorns to the stars. Epic - this, of course, "David Sasunsky", in the medieval section traces the development of the Armenian poetic syllables over 15 centuries. Open its medieval folk songs, laments and spells, then the works of the authors of the V century, the creator of the Armenian alphabet - Mesrop Mashtots, X - Grigoriya Narekatsi, complete the "Middle Ages" verses of the great Armenian-ashug poet "necked nightingale" the XVIII century Sayat Nova. The first volume ends with the classic works of modern Armenian poetry Paruyr Sevak.
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