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Which kinds of early Turkish poems appear in Mahmud Kashgari's dictionary?

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Mahmud Kashgari’s comprehensive dictionary, Diwan lughat al-Turk (compiled c. 1072–74), contains specimens of early Turkish poetry presented in the form of quatrains known as dörtlük. These poems represent all the principal genres of the period, specifically:12

Epic
Pastoral
Didactic
Lyric
Elegiac1