A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry
'AQQAD 109 Despite some obscurities this little-known poem is perhaps Mazini's most mature work. Considering its length, its voc ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 110 and the durability of stone. His neoclassical roots can be seen not only in his attempt to imitate the wor ...
'AQQAD 111 poet is doubly unfortunate since beauty is the main concern of a poet and it is therefore wasted if he cannot see it. ...
THE PRE-ROMANTICS 112 The theme of suffering is dominant in 'Aqqad's verse. In one poem he writes (p. 184) How I strive to sing ...
'AQQAD 113 poem is 'A Devil's Biography' (pp. 241 ff.), which is also written in an interest- ing and more satisfactory form, th ...
THE PRB-ROMANTICS 114 'The Fallen Idol' (p. 326) or 'War or Peace' (p. 335). In his best poems he is generally realistic in his ...
The romantics 'Aqqad and Mazini proved much more successful than their greater con- temporary Mutran in altering the current lit ...
THB ROMANTICS 116 in the Apollo Society of which Abu Shadi was virtually the founder and Naji the vice-president, the spirit of ...
ABU SHADI 117 and other reasons, he emigrated to the United States, where again he resumed his literary activities, contributing ...
THE ROMANTICS 118 the poet and scholar Katnal Nash'at suggests, his thwarted ambition and desire to obtain some recognition, sin ...
ABU SHADI 119 with Abu Shadi. Although his poetry generally impresses us with its spon- taneity, it suffers from the same defect ...
THE ROMANTICS 120 subjects. The dominant themes of his abundant lyrical verse are love, nature, mythology (both Greek and ancien ...
ABU SHADI 121 is amply shown in his volume: The Dewdrops of Dawn. For instance in 'Inspired by Rain' he says: Raindrops are fall ...
THE ROMANTICS 122 Abu Shadi explained his conception of poetry in many articles and pre- faces to his own and other poets' volum ...
ABU SHADI 123 crows, the hoopoe, flowers like violets, fields and canals, the Nile and the desert. In 'Evening in the Desert' he ...
THE ROMANTICS 124 Light is, in fact (like 'thirst', 'exile' and 'fire') one of the dominant and re- current images in his verse. ...
ABU SHADI 125 haps one of the finest poems in modem Arabic, and deserves to be much better known, the physical and spiritual sid ...
THE ROMANTICS 126 of the flesh." The beauty created by the poet out of his imagination has be- come a distinctly spiritual kind ...
ABU SHADI 127 Kingdom of Art', he says in another poem,^36 is here on earth, 'our mother earth has created it, art flies in the ...
THE ROMANTICS 128 by means other than verse composition, towards the cause of modern Arabic poetry. In September 1932, thanks to ...
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