NOTES TO PAGES 45-55 26954 See, for instance, the poems on the Messina Earthquake and 'Mit Ghamr Fire',
Diwan, 1,204ff;239ff.
55 Even new poems of a strictly 'contemporary' type are written on the incident. See,
e.g. Salah 'Abd al-Sabur's remarkable poem Shanq Zahran (the Hanging of Zahran)
in his volume of verse Al-Nasfi Biladi (People in my Country) (Beirut 1957), pp. 48ff.
56 See Mahir Hasan Fahmi, vl/-Za/tawf (Cairo, n.d.), pp. 178ff.
57 Published in the periodical Al-Katib al-Misri (Cairo), iv, 15(Dec. 1946), p. 459.
58 See his autobiographical preface to his collection Ruba'iyyat (Quatrains) (Beirut,
1924), reprinted in Muhammad Yusuf Najm, ed., Diwan Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (Cairo,
1955), vol. I, p. 176.
59 Here are the Arabic titles: al-Kalim al-Munzitm (Beirut, 1327 A. H.) Ruba'iyyat al-
Zahawi (Beirut, 1924), D'twan al-Zahawi (Cairo, 1924), al-Lubab (Baghdad, 1928),
Thaura fi'l Jahim published in al-Duhur (Beirut 1931), al-Aushal (Baghdad, 1934),
al-Thumala (Baghdad, 1939), and al-Nazaghat, published in Hilal Naji, Al-Zahawi
wa Diwanuh al-Mafqud (Cairo, 1963).
60 Rufi'il Butti, Al-Adab al-'Asrifi'I 'Iraq al-'Arabi, 2 vols (Baghdad - Cairo, 1923), vol. I,
p. 5; Ibrahim Samarra'I, Lughat al-Shi'r bain Main (Beirut, n.d.), p. 46.
61 See Nasir al-Hani, Muhadarat 'an Jamil al-Zahaw. Hayatuh wa Shtruh (Cairo, 1954),
p. 18 and Ibrahim Samarra'i, lughat al-Shi'r, p. 47.
62 See his poem lla shaikh al-Ma'arra in Diwan Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (Dar al-'Auda,
Beirut, 1972), vol. I, p. 487.
63 Ibid, pp. 671,673.
64 See e.g. the poem 'Ala'l Qabr in Diwan al-Zahawi (Cairo, 1924) (henceforth to be re-
ferred to simply as Dtwan), p. 171.
65 Hilal Naji, Al-Zahawi, pp- ?5ff.
66 Ibrahim Samarra'i, Lughat al-Shi'r, pp. 53ff.
67 See e.g. the poem ha'da alf'am in J. S. al-Zahawi, Al-Lubab (Baghdad, 1928), pp.
280ff.
68 Muhammad YusuiNajmed., Diwan JamU Sidqi al-Zahawi, vol. i. (Cairo, 1955), p. 179.
69 See e.g. the poems al-Hayat wa'l tab? a and Qird al-ghab in Diwan J. S. al-Zahawi
(Beirut, 1972), pp. 497ff. and 506, which show the influence of the ideas of Darwin
and Nietzsche. Cf. Hilal Najt Al-Zahawi. pp. 87ff.
70 Diwan, pp. 156ff. and 135ff: Na^rafi'l Nujum, Mashhad al-Sama'.
71 Ibid., pp. 9Off.,83ff., 168ff.
72 See Dawud Sallum, Tatawwur al-Fikra wa'l Uslubfi'l Adab al-'Iraqifi'l Qarnain al-Tas?
'Ashar wa'l 'Ishrin (Baghdad, 1959), pp. 82ff.; Yusuf'Izzil-Din, Al-Zahawi al-Sha'ir al-
Qaliq (Baghdad, 1962), p. 31; Hilal Naji, Al-Zahawi, pp. 34ff; Mahir Hasan Fahmi,
Al-Zahawi, pp. 136ff. and 'Abd al-Razzaq al-Hilali, Al-Zahawi bain al-Thaura wa'l
Sukun (Beirut, n.d.).
73 See Zahkvn, Al-Kalim al-Manpim (Beirut, 1327A.H.),pp. 121,139,andi)row!,pp.68,
90,93.
74 'Ala Qabr Ibnatiha (On her daughter's grave), Diwan, pp. 77ff.
75 See e.g. Sa'imtu Hayati (I have grown tired of my life), Al-Lubab (Baghdad, 1928),
pp. 328-30.
76 Diwan, p. 122.
77 Hilal Na)l Al-Zahawi, pp. 321,326, 350.
78 Jamil Sa'Id, Al-Zahawiwa Thauratuh fi'l Jahim (Cairo, 1968), pp. 32-4.
79 See Nasir al-Hani, Muhadarat, pp. 58ff. and Muhammad Abdul-Hai, 'Tradition and
English and American Influence in Modem Romantic Arabic Poetry', unpublished
D.Phil, thesis (Oxford, 1973), pp. 3O7ff.
80 Mahir Hasan Fahmi, Al-Zahawi, p. 22 3.