- Georgian Title: ვარდბულბულიანი - Year: 1875 - By: King
Teimuraz I - Source: The National Parliamentary Library of
Georgia - Language: Georgian Read the book English
Editorial:Teimuraz I’s literary works addresses a wide range of
topics and includes his original poems as well as translations
and adaptations from Persian. This king-poet had such a
universal knowledge of Persian and Georgian literature and was
so proud of his innovations into the Georgian poetry, that, in
his old age, Teimuraz proclaimed himself the greatest poet of
Georgia and thought himself superior to the celebrated medieval
Georgian author Shota Rustaveli. Although no such claim has ever
been accepted by the critics of Georgian literature, there can
be no doubt that his courtly and rather mannered lyricism had a
certain influence on the 17th-19th-century Georgian poetry.
Educated at the Safavid court, he was proficiently fluent in
Persian, and his poetic language was full of Persian imagery and
allusions, loanwords, and phraseology. The R