Literary Traditions of Mahtimkuli in Modern Turkish Poetry

Abstract

This article examines the problems of the literary impact of the works of a Turkmen poet of the XVIII century Maktymkuly Pyragy on the work of subsequent Turkic writers, and at the same time on the works of modern Uzbek, Karakalpak and Turkmen writers. Literary traditions and the development of Maktymkuly’s work are also comparatively studied, especially in the lyrics of the Karakalpak poet I. Yusupov, the Uzbek poet H. Askarov and the Turkmen poet G. Gurbannepesov.