A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry
THE DIWAN GROUP 89 relatively long introduction to volume v of his Collected Works, enunciates a number of principles, including ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 90 Perhaps next to their insistence on the need to create an organic unity in a poem comes the importance thes ...
THB DIWAN GROUP 91 The insistence of these poets on the need to write Egyptian literature is in fact related to their belief in ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 92 tive attitude towards versification, these poets, unlike the romantics, especially those of al-Mahjar, occu ...
SHUKRI 93 had a good deal of honesty and insight into his own character. There is no doubt that Shukri's malaise was in part a r ...
THB PRE-ROMANTICS 94 The above quotations underline the fact that the change in the conven- tional idiom of Arabic poetry is, li ...
SHUKRI 95 a tyrant. He calls his story 'a tale with a moral'. The next narrative poem, entitled 'The Lover of Money' and given t ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 96 Shukri's second volume, which appeared in 1913, after his return from his studies in England, and prefaced ...
SHUKRI 97 (p. 284). Furthermore in the poetry written after 1919 Shukri became exces- sively moralistic, and often his poems wer ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 98 allegorically the value of the eternal quest for truth. The Voice of God' is a religious and mystical comme ...
SHUKRI 99 Among Shukri's other themes nature occupies a large space. In 'The Magic of Spring' he claims that To be fully human m ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 100 meanness. Because of this love has a great place in poetry ... it is not a condition that love poetry shou ...
SHUKRI 101 it be that the poet was suffering from a homosexual passion? This is not at all a fantastic theory, although Shukri's ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 102 Would I were the water and you the wine, We would then contain one another, With neither jealousy nor dece ...
SHUKRI 103 and betraying his low opinion of men, for it shows the persistence of human greed and strife when the bodies, risen f ...
THE PRB-ROMANTICS 104 have glimpsed it incapable of coping with this mundane world. The poem clearly shows Shukri's ambivalent a ...
MAZINI 105 case he finds himself slipping into monorhyme in eleven consecutive lines (p. 91). The poem which adheres to the mono ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 106 Mazini translated or adapted a number of English poems (by Shakespeare, Milton, Waller, Burns, Shelley, Ho ...
MAZINI 107 of the rest of the Diwan group. It was their awareness of their own suffering as poets that bound the three poets tog ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 108 and hesitation between a worn-out past and an uncertain future' and in which 'there was a wide gap between ...
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