Minstrel Halil Erdugan of Çorum and his apprentices

Determination and the evaluation of the biographies of all poets thosetake place in Minstrel Literature will provide the literature department to takeits real place in the history of literature.This study, which subjected the life, art, works and apprentices ofMinstrel Halil Erdugan from Çorum, consists of six parts.In the introduction part of the study; history of çorum, geographicalfeatures, economic and cultural conditions are emphasized. The bards thosegrown up in çorum were enumerated.In the first part, Minstrel Halil?s life and his thoughts about theminstrelsy tradition were narrated. His belief and knowledge about religioussubjects were dwelled upon.In the second part, The Form of Minstrel Halil?s poems wereexamined. The number of the sections, rhymes, the types of rhymes, thescansion that used, the rests those seen in the poems were explained withexamples.In the third part, the literary arts, narration types those seen in MinstrelHalil?s poems were explained with examples.In the fourth part, subjects of the poems were examined. His poem?swere classified as religious sufistic subjects, love, endearment and beloved,social topics, sorrow and agony, historical and national topics, naturalbeauties. These subjects were explained with examples. In religious sufisticsubjects part the religious sufistic factors were enumerated.In the fifth part, Minstrel Halil?s poems were enumerated as they takeplace in his own notebook. The authentic forms of the poems he used weretransfered, they haven?t been changed. He didn?t use punctuation Marks inhis poems. There are 101 poems in this part.In this study Minstrel Halil?s 101 poems were examined. First thesepoems were arranged in order of their syllable number; 11, 8, 7 and 6, thenthe poems were arranged alphabeticaly according to their last line?s lastletter. Furthermore in the paranthesis on the right side of the examples, usedin the information given in the study, poem and section numbers were given.In the sixth part, some of the apprentices of Minstrel Halil; EşrefErdugan?s, Ali İhsan Erdugan?s, Arap Ali Erdugan?s short autobiographiesand knowledge about their arts and then some examples were given.The sources those made use of were given alphabeticaly in thebibliography.