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Latîfî is a significant literary critic who draws attention with sophisticated criticism in his "collection of biographies" (collection of biographies). It is seen that the author who doesn't ignore to evaluate lots of poets in his thesis in terms of literary degree and poetry quality, also discusses previous assessments and makes some evaluations about them. The most apparent one is the criticism of Tâcîzâde Cafer Çelebi's criticism about Sheikhî and Ahmed Paşa, two famous poets of the previous period, in Heves-nâme. Cafer Chelebi condemns Sheikh because he has not clear and fluent expression and uses strange statements. He also condemns Ahmed Pasha due to the fact that he tells poetry through translation. Nonetheless, Latîfî defends these two poets by stating that they must be criticized within the concept of the period’s literary degree and conditions. While doing this, Latîfî states criticised inadequacies of Shayhi and Ahmed Paşa, too. Furthermore, he says that Cafer Çelebi and those who make the same evaluations are the poetry masters. Thus, he embraces an approach that gives everyone's right regardless of having a goal of signification and denigration. It shows that he is a careful, objective and fair critic. Latîfî’s criticism of Cafer Çelebi’s criticisms denotes his knowledge in previous criticism literature and also his literary knowledge and experience in this area. It is seen that Latîfî makes “the criticism of criticism” in addition to criticism in his texture with his evaluations about Cafer Çelebi’s criticisms.

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