NOTES TO PAGES 261-265 284CHAPTER 7: EPILOGUE
1 Donald Keene, ed.. Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology (London, 1956),
pp. 19-20.
2 The Times Literary Supplement, 30 April 1971, p. 492.
3 Stanley Bumshaw, ed., The Poem /fjrf/(London, 1964).
4 See Al-Adab (Beirut), 12 (Dec., 1970), 8.
5 Keene, Modem Japanese Literature, p. 19. See also M. Abdel-Hai, 'Shelley and the
Arabs: an Essay in Comparative Literature', JAL, in (1972), 72—89.
6 Al-Amidi, al-Muwazana, ed. A. Saqr (Cairo, 1961), pp. 6,256.
7 On the significance of clarity as the sine qua non of good style in the Arabic tradition
see M. Mustafa Badawi, Dirasdtft'lShi'rwa'lMasrah (Cairo, 1960), pp. 32ff. On the
Arab critics' insistence on the exact correspondence between the two elements of a
simile — another European Neoclassical feature — see Kama! Abu Deeb, 'al-JurjanTs
Theory of Poetic Imagery and its Background', unpublished D.Phil, dissertation
(Oxford, 1970), I, 139, 156.
8 G. E. von Grunebaum, 'The Aesthetic Foundation of Arabic Literature', Comparative
Literature, rv, 4 (Fall, 1952), 323. '
9 Ibid.,p. 326.
10 Akhl: Mikha'il Nu'aima, Hams al-Jufiin (Beirut, 1962), pp. 14ff.
11 al-Sabahal-Jadid-.Abu'lQasimal-ShabblAghamal-Hayat (Cairo, 1955), pp. 159ff.
12 aZ-Mflsa': Iliya Abu Madi, at-Jadawil (Beirut, 1961), pp. 56ff.
13 Min niya Fukay: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Unshiidat al-Mata (Beirut, 1960), pp. 46ff.
14 al-Nahr wa 'I Maut: al-Sayyab, Unshiidat, pp. 141 ff.
15 al-Sayyab, Manzilal-Atman (Beirut, 1963), pp. 36ff.