NOTES TO PAGES 129-146 27444 Here are the Arabic titles: al-Mallah al-Ta'ih; Warn' al-Ghamam; al-Ahlam al-Dd'i'a;
Anfas Muhtariqa; al-Zauraq al-HaUm; Ahldm al-Nakhtl; al-Shati' al-Majhul. See Muham-
mad Mandur, al-Shi'ral-Misri, p. 5.
45 Ila Jlta al-Patina. See Salih Jaudat, M. 'A. al-Hamshari, Hayatuh wa Shi'ruh (Cairo,
1963), p. 20.
46 Sha tV al-A'raf. See Apollo, I, 629-45.
47 See Jaudat's biographical introduction to Dfwan Naji (Cairo, 1961), p. 16. This
edition will be referred to simply as Dfwan and all the references between brackets
in this section on Naji will be to it throughout.
48 The Arabic titles are: Ward' al-Ghamam; LaydTial-Qdhira; Al-Ta'ir al-Jarih. The prose
works cited are Risalat al-Haydt, Kaifa Tafltam al-Nds and Taufiq al-Haklm al-Pannan
al-Ha'ir.
49 These are the poems on the following pages: 45, 52, 78,98, 111, 114, 162, 174,201,
202,215, 325,326,356 (all of which are included in Nash'at's volume Riydh wa
Shumu' published in Cairo in 1951) and also most probably the poem on p. 13 7.
50 Dfwan, pp. 87,131,157,284,307.
51 Ibid., pp. 46,62, 64,83, 164,283,296.
52 Ibid., pp. 49, 130, 133,170, 179,239,252, 303.
53 Ibrahim Naji, Risalat al-Hayat (Cairo, n.d.), p. 18.
54 See the introduction to his Diwan, pp. 31 —2.
55 See, e.g. the poems on pp. 39,42,61,75,118.
56 See pp. 39,91,97,141, 175,218 and pp. 55, 56ff., 85,238.
57 Muhammad 'Abdul-Hat Tradition and English and American Influence in Arabic
Romantic Poetry', unpublished D.Phil, thesis (Oxford, 1973). See especially the
chapter entitled The Night of the Creative Mind', pp. 84-128.
58 See, e.g. Dfwan, pp. 56,65, 148.
59 Ibid., eg. 57,218, 248.
60 Ni'matFu'ad,Na;ia/-SWir(Cairo, 1954), pp. 66-7.
61 See Dfwan, p. 39 n.
62 Naji, Risalat al-Hayat, p. 25.
63 For an able and penetrating analysis of Tana's music see Nazik al-Mala'ika,Muhadarat ft ShfrATiMahmud Taha (Caiio, 1965),pp.64ff.; 144ff.
64 This is the generally accepted date of his birth, but according to one biographer he
was bom in 1901. See N. Sayyid Taqiyy al-DIn al-Sayyid, 'AlfMahmud Tana: Hayatuh
wa Shi'ruh (Cairo, 1964), p. 25.
65 See 'Abdul-Hai, Tradition and English and American Influence', pp. 23-4.
66 In Arabic: Al-Mallah al-Ta'ih, LayaTi al-MaUah al-Ta'ih; Arwah wa Ashbah; Ughniyyat
al-Riyah al-Arba'; Zahr wa Khamr; al-Shauq al-'A'id; Sharq wa Gharb. The Arabic title
of the volume of essays cited above is Arwah Sharida.
67 'Ali Mahmud Taha, Dfwan (Beirut, 1972), p. 149. All the references between
brackets in this section on Taha will be to this edition.
68 See 'Abdul-Hai, 'Tradition and English and American Influence', pp. 84ff.
69 Al-Mala'ika, Muhadarat, p. 27.
70 Ibid.,pp.8B.
71 Jayyusi, 'Trends and Movements', i,pp.552ff.
72 MuharnmadMahdial-Jawahiri,i4/-Afij;mM'aa;-5to'nyyaa/-Kflmi7<j (Beirut, 1969),
vol. n, pp. 63ff.
73 Al-Mala'ika, Muhadarat. pp. 81, 365.
74 On Taha's prosodic skill and originality see part m of al-Mala'ika's book.
75 See Razzuq Faraj Razzuq, IlyasAbu Shabaka wa Shi'ruh (Beirut, 1956), p. 45.
76 Rawabit al-Pikr wa'l Ruh bain al-'Arab wa'l Pirinja (Beirut, 1943).
77 In Arabic: AI-Qaithara, al-Marid al-Samit, Afi'l al-Firdaus, al-Alhdn, Nida' al-Qalb,
Hi al-Abad, Ghahva' and Mm Sa'id al-Aliha.