29.05.2026
Yeghishe Charents: A Voice That Never Falls Silent
Some poets write lines that become the heartbeat of an entire nation. Yeghishe Charents is one of them. Born in Kars in 1897, he lived a short but blazing life and left behind poetry that still rings on the lips of Armenian readers today. Charents was the boldest and freshest voice of twentieth-century Armenian literature - innovative, passionate and fearless.
His most beloved lines - "I love the sun-sweet word of my sweet Armenia" - have become a beloved emblem of love for the homeland. You can read the source of that feeling in Es im anush Hayastani, the collection where Charents turns devotion to his country into pure music.
Yet Charents wrote about far more than homeland. His poems speak of love, rebellion, time and the human soul. The selected volume Banasteghtsutyunner (Poems) gathers his finest work, from early lyricism to the mature, philosophically deep verse of his later years. You can also read online, right on your screen.
The meditations and tragic reflections of his final period are gathered in Verjin khosk (The Last Word) - deep, honest and heartbreaking.
Charents's voice did not fall silent even after his tragic death in 1937. Today his lines are reborn again and again with every reader who finds them. Open the ELIB library and discover the treasures of Armenian literature.
Turn the first page, and Charents's voice becomes your own. Start reading right now.