Özet:

Abdülhak Hâmid is one of the leading people who used the type of letter most. His books which had been published in the era of Tanzimat, The Second Constitutional Era and Republic was made into a book. Nonetheless, the difficulty of getting his all letters together is evident as Hamid lived longer than his peers and was into contact with a wide range of people. Thus, as researches progress, there are new letters appearing which was not involved in the poet’s corpus. This article will focus on a letter that was published in Peyâm newspaper in the era of Armistice and then, the letter will be given as a text transcript. The topic of the letter, which was sent to Ali Kemal who was the head of Peyâm newspaper and editor-in-chief, is literary and contains the views of the poet about poem and criticism. The letter is important in terms of showing the attitude of Abdülhak Hâmid about this topic, who was highly criticised because of his understanding of literature.