Heine’s poem ‘Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen’ (‘The night is still, the streets are dumb’), written in the early 1820s, describes a nocturnal encounter between the poet and his double. The poet returns to stand under the window of the house where his beloved once lived, only to find his double on duty in his place. To the poet, the double’s sighs and hand-wringing seem to be a mocking...

in the mythology of nations, there has been a myth known as “the numen of poetry and art” and different cultures have samples for that. this numen has been the connecting point between human being and god (or divinities) that inspires poetry to the poet in an unconscious manner. the writer of this article has studied shahnameh and pahlavi literature to search for this myth in the culture of anc...

Abstract This article argues that ṣulḥ-i kull (peace for all) as a specific term was introduced in the 1590s by small group of avant-garde Neoplatonists who worked at court Mughal emperor Akbar. It only following century developed into ethos became ideological mainstay rule both internally, its administrative elites, and externally, vis-à-vis their main rivals: Uzbeks Central Asia Safavids Iran...

The paper presents a reconstruction of the automatic poetry generation system realized in Italy in 1961 by Nanni Balestrini to compose the poem Tape Mark I. The major goal of the paper is to provide a critical comparison between the high-level approach that seems to be suggested by the poet, and the low-level combinatorial algorithm that was actually implemented. This comparison allows to asses...