Antique leather-bound book "Anthology of Uzbek poetry"

Uzbek literature in the process of its development was associated with the most ancient cultures, since trade caravan routes connecting the countries of the East and West crossed on the territory of present-day Uzbekistan. The basis of oral folk literature consists of heroic poems - dastans. Another cycle of Uzbek dastans consists of love and romantic poems. The first samples of written Uzbek poetry date back to the 7th century. During this period, the poet dervish Akhmat Yasavi wrote his "hikmats". The XI-XI centuries are characterized by the development of court poetry in the Persian language in Bukhara, Samarkand and Urgench.
This edition presents all the diversity of Uzbek poetry from ancient epic works, poetry of the XIV - early XX century to Soviet poetry and its most striking representatives. The publication is preceded by "An essay on the development of Uzbek poetry, written by M.Aybek.