A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry

KHAL AND HAWI 249 absence from her when he was studying in England, and how she thinks that he has not changed 'from the youth c ...

THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM 250 the opening of the poem entitled 'The Bottomless Pit' (pp. 4Iff.). Using a modified version of t ...

SAYYAB 251 a 'reactionary' English poet, although this may be due to the fact that this is how Eliot was described by Luwis 'Awa ...

THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM 252 After Myths Sayyab turned to socially and politically committed poetry by writing first long poe ...

SAYYAB 253 full height of his creativity. In such poems he managed to fuse together in the heat of the imaginative act the most ...

THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM 254 subject of the poem: the rain, first to its joyful life-giving qualities, 'the chuckles of child ...

SAYYAB 255 The same interweaving of the personal and the public and political elements is to be found in several other powerful ...

THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM 256 entitled 'Sarbarus fi Babil' ('Cerberus in Babel') I satirized Qasim and his regime severely and ...

SAYYAB 257 tion, such as the title poem which is a disillusioned comment on the absence of ideals from human society. In the nex ...

THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM 258 His broken crushed spirit Shining through his supplicating eyes, In mercy God will weep for him, ...

THE CONTEMPORARY POETS 259 ness or modernity. The term has become an emotionally charged one: the cult of the 'New' has never be ...

THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM 260 but without, losing his passivity, his talent for suffering. In the last phase of the developmen ...

Epilogue By contrast with earlier poetry, modem Arabic poetry is, in general, character- ized by a spirit of revolt: the student ...

EPILOGUE 262 composed. The present vogue of poetry in translation, which is clearly notice- able in the Anglo-Saxon world at lea ...

EPILOGUE 263 Marinetti, but his own poetry shows only a mild form of romanticism. It is a sobering thought indeed that the Greek ...

EPILOGUE 264 concors. The ideal of clarity which remained of paramount importance in the classical Arabic critical tradition^7 i ...

EPILOGUE 265 of social and cultural change, the political malaise, the occasional awareness of loss of direction and of being st ...

NOTES TO THE TEXT CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTORY 1 A. J. Arberry, Arabic Poetry, A Primer for Students (1965), pp. 18-21. 2 R. A. Nicho ...

NOTES TO PAGES 14-28 267 CHAPTER 2: NBOCLASSICISM 1 See MustalaLutfial-Manfalutl,AfM*toarafa/-MaM/fl;ufi (Cairo, 1912), p. 108. ...

NOTES TO PAGES 28-45 268 25 See above, pp. 24f. and M. M. Badawi, • Al-Hilal, Moon or Poet? A Critical Analysis of a Poem by Sha ...