The line “There’s no brighter forehead than that of Narekatsi and Kuchak” in the poem “I Love My Sweet Armenia’s Sun Flavored Word”, published in 1922, was written by Yeghishe Charents at the time when Nahapet Kuchak’s original ashugh (minstrel) literary works were unknown to science, so it’s quite natural to assume that when speaking about Kuchak, Charents had in mind the hayrens (an old form of Armenian folk poetry). Meanwhile in the poem “In Praise of Grapes, Wine and Fine Art” written in 1932, the poet called the authors of hayrens “composers of village hayrens”.

KeywordsKuchak hayrens Charents literary work perception.