A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry

IN THE UNITED STATES 189 andria until 1911, the year of the publication of his first volume of verse. He then emigrated to the U ...

THE EMIGRANT POETS 190 volume The Thickets we find a poem brimful of hope, like 'Smile',^2 * where the poet is capable of enjoyi ...

IN THE UNITED STATES 191 with 'obstinate questionings' of the human condition: he writes about mean- ingless and unnecessary suf ...

THE EMIGRANT POETS 192 fell ill in 1942, after which date he ceased to write poetry, and died in 1946. His poems were collected ...

IN THE UNITED STATES 193 of Black Stone (Umm al-Hij&r al-Siid). One of his most successful poems, in which he expresses his ...

THE EMIGRANT POETS 194 every man being an island. One of the poems he translated from the Russian, Silentium by Tyutchev (who wa ...

IN THE UNITED STATES 195 vehemence of feeling nearly caused him to break the form of the metre (al-Kdmil) into its constituent p ...

THE EMIGRANT POETS 196 germ, of his future development. For instance, the poet uses quatrains many times; he writes verse narrat ...

IN LATIN AMERICA 197 influence of the West. At the same time the industrial and economic pressure of life in the United States w ...

THE EMIGRANT POBTS 198 form. He has written poems on political, social or religious occasions. For instance, 'To God's Prophet' ...

IN LATIN AMERICA 199 Farhat's sensibility is, on the whole, remarkably unsophisticated. He is chiefly a love poet, gifted with a ...

THB EMIGRANT POETS 200 accounts for the large bulk of his verse, most of which is written on public or social themes. Like Farha ...

IN LATIN AMERICA 201 with an extremely precious introduction by Francisco Villa Spasa, who translated the work into Spanish.^68 ...

THE EMIGRANT POETS 202 dream of rising to the world of the spirit is really motivated by a desire to escape from reality, a reje ...

'MAHJAR' AND ROMANTIC POETRY 203 sive individualism which marked life both in the Arab East and in the West is beginning to disa ...

The recoil from romanticism The general background Romanticism in modern Arabic poetry reached its momentum between the two worl ...

THE GENERAL BACKGROUND 205 of subtle subjective and evanescent feelings and moods, and therefore relatively incapable of conveyi ...

THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM 206 bearing such indicative titles as Literature for the People and Censored Articles.^6 What al-Maj ...

THE GENERAL BACKGROUND 207 as in the work of other Arab writers such as the Iraqi novelist Dhu'l Nun Ayyub.^9 A frontal attack o ...

THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM 208 two events which in the meantime had contributed significantly to the wide spread of this attitu ...