BALDIRZADE SEL？S？’S POEMS BASED ON POEM COLLECT？ON

The one of the important sources of classical Turkish literary researchers is poetry collections. Poetry collections which reflect the literary pleasure and tendency of the compiler and the period they compiled, have many benefits for our literature. Poets come out which puplished thanks to poem collections but aren’t puplished in divans. In addition, we can encounter the poems of poets who do not have divans and cannot be found. This article is about the poems of Bald？rzade Selisi of whom is the 17th century poet that does not have a divan today. According to the sources, there are two poets with the pseudonym(called) Selisi who lived in the 17th century. These poets are Avarezade Selisi and Bald？rzade Selisi. Bald？rzade Selisi from the sheikhs of Bursa, the grandson of Tokatl？ Ali Dede, was the son of Mustafa Efendi, one of the preachers of Ulucami. The poet worked as a professor in many madrasahs in Bursa and Istanbul and retired from Mecca. Bald？rzade Selisi, a very fruitful artist, died in 1060. The famous fame of Bald？rzade Selisi in our literature comes from “Ravza-i Evliya”. This work, which contains the life stories of scholars, sheikhs and poets living in Bursa, is the first work of his kind in the history of Turkish literature. In the study, firstly, information about the poets with the pseudonym (called) Selisi will be given and then Bald？rzade Selisi’s 4 kasida and 17 ghazal obtained from the poem collections will be examined in terms of shape and content. At the end of the article, the transcriptions of the kasidas and ghazals will be given. In this study which exemplifies the importance of poetry collections for classical Turkish literature, a small step will be taken in the “Selisi’s Divan” has which will be formed by the discovery of new information or divan copies