Poet
(b. ?, İstanbul – d. 1768, Rhodes). His real name was Mehmed. He was well
educated and became a teacher. He found a place in society with his poems that
he presented to Şeyhülislam Karahalilzâde Yahya Said Efendi. He gained the
friendship and patronage of Koca Ragıp Paşa and Poet Fıtnat Hanım. However, he
was exiled to Bursa (1759) and Rhodes (1868) for his excessive satires that he
read at meetings which statesman attended. He is buried on Rhodes.
Poet
Haşmet whose poetry carries the influence of Nâbi, Nef’i and Koca Ragıp Paşa,
was known for his Viladetnâme (Birth
Book) written on the birth of Sultan Musfata III’s daughter Hibetullah and
requested by Koca Ragıp Paşa.
WORKS:
Divan (Divan*,
1841), İntisabü'l Mülûk ya da Hâbname
(The Raising of Emperors or
the Sin Book, 1841, Egypt), Senedü'ş-Şuârâ
(Deed of the Poets, 1871), Vilâdetnâme
veya Surnâme (The Birth Book or The Festival Book, by Reşat Ekrem Koçu,
published in 1940), Şehadetname (The
Book of Testifying to Islam, explaining the physical and spiritual effects), Dürreteyn (Dictionary).
