ԺԸ. դարի հայ բանաստեղծութիւնը
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1992
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The eighteenth century witnessed an amazing flourishing of the Armenian poetry which in the seventeenth century had already laid down the groundwork towards the secularization and advance of the modern Armenian poetry. The period under the scope of discussion presents a time of transition between the Armenian Middle Ages and the modern times, with it at times personal, moral, religious, social and political, and especially mundane, expressions. There exists almost no Armenian poet who has not dealt with the problem of the liberation of the fatherland. At times, even those songs and poems, which clearly pertain to personal and emotional aspects of the individual poet, are allegorical and hence portray the conditions, beauty, the past and present, the daily struggle, the loss of hope and the invitation to struggle for the present and future of the fatherland, where foreigners have captivated every possible walk of life and enslaved the beloved: the fatherland. Consequently most of the poets of the XVIII century Armenian poets have dedicated themselves to the work of liberation, in spite of the fact that at first glance most of their poetical work seem personal, romantic and, at times, religious.
The article delves deep into the poetical worlds of Khachadour of Erzeroum (Garin), Ghazar of Djahoug, Baghdassar Depeer, Movses of Garin, Bedros of Nakhitchevan, Bedros of Ghapan, Sarkis of Paloo, Krikor of Oshagan, Hovhannes of Garin, Simeon of Yerevan (the one-time Armenian Catholicos of Etchmiadzin). and Hagop Nalian (the one-time Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople). Besides these figures, some of whom are also renouned as historians, grammarians, commentators, philosophers and translators, the author of the article deals with the songs of certain Armenian ashooghs, who, in the XIII century, continued and modernized the poetical and musical legacy bequeathed them by the koossans of the Armenian antiquity. Of the ashooghs Dr, Pakhchinian analyses the works of Ghazar, the son of Bagher (Bagheroghli Ghazar), Shamshi Melkon, and Sayat-Nova; the latter being the greatest of all ashooghs of all times, and having written and sung some more than 180 songs in Armenian, Tartar (Azeri) and Georgian languages. The author has dedicated to him a considerable section of his study.
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Բախչինեան, Հ., «ԺԸ. դարի հայ բանաստեղծութիւնը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1992, Պէյրութ, էջ 227-295