43 cAbd al-Wahhmb al-Baymtl, Al-A‘mal, al-shi‘riyyah(The Poetic Works), 2 vols
(Beirut: Al-Mu’ssasah al-Arabiyyah lil-Divmsmt, 1995), 1, p. 27.
44 On concepts of modernity, see Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of Modernity, pp. 91–92.
45 See Mounah A. Khouri, “Criticism and the Heritage: Adonis as Advocate of a
New Arab Culture,” in Arab Civilization: Challenges and Responses, Studies in
Honor of Constantine K. Zurayk, eds George N. Atiyeh and Ibrahim M. Oweiss
(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988), pp. 183–207, at
p. 186.
46 Ibid., p. 187.
47 Cited from Nicholson’s translation in Ilse Lichtenstadter, Introduction to Classical
Arabic Literature(New York: Schocken Books, 1976), p. 309.
48 See Najib Ullah, Islamic Literature(New York: Washington Square Press, 1963),
p. 60.
49 Reynolds A. Nicholson, Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose(London: Curzon
Press, 1987), p. 105.
50 A. J. Arberry, Poems of Al-Mutanabbl: A Selection with Introduction, Translations,
and Notes(Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, 1967), pp. 72–73.
51 R. A. Nicholson’s translation, A Literary History of the Arabs(1907; reprint,
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 307. For a discussion
of the classical and the new, see Joseph M. Conte, Unending Design, p. 24.
52 Al-Baymtl, >arm’iq al-shu‘arm’ (The Fire of Poets) (Beirut: Al-Mu’assasah
al-‘Arabiyyah, 1994), p. 80.
53 Ma.mnd Darwlsh, >ixmr li-madm’i.al-ba.r(‘Akka: al-Aswmr, 1984), pp. 35–47.
54 Mahmoud Darwish, “I See my Ghost Coming from Afar,” in Unfortunately, It
Was Paradise, Selected Poems, trans. and eds Munir Akash and Carolyn Forche
(Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2003), p. 55.
55 See Joseph Riddel’s discussion of Pound, “De-centering the Image,” p. 344.
56 A. J. Arberry, Poems of Al-Mutanabbl, pp. 82–83.
57 See Suzanne P. Stetkevych, “Abbasid Panegyric: The Politics and Poetics
of Ceremony,” in Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language and Literature, ed.
J. R. Smart ( Surrey: Curzon, 1996), pp. 119–43, at p. 125. There is a further
note in the concluding chapter.
58 Cited by al-Marzawland al-Xafadlrespectively, in Al-Qifyl, “Inbm’ al-ruwmt
‘almanbm‘ al-nu.at” and “Al-Wmfi bi-al-wafaymt” in Ta‘rlf al-Qudamm’ blAbl
al-‘Alm’(The Ancients’ explication of Abnal-cAlm’), eds Muxyafa al Saqqm,
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pp. 50, 277.
59 Joseph Riddel, “De-centering the Image,” pp. 348–49.
60 See Adnnls, Zaman al-shi‘r, p. 239.
61 Abn‘AllMu.ammad Ibn al-Hasan al->atiml(d. 998) Al-Rismlah al->atimiyah:
fi-mmwmfaqa al-Mutanabblfli shi‘rihlkalmm Arixyu fi al-.ikma(Beirut, 2nd Print,
1985).
62 See Mu.mmad Bennls, Kitmbat al-ma.w(Erasure Writing) (Casablanca: Tnbqml,
1994), p. 70.
63 See Erza Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska, p. 85.
64 Badr Shmkir al-Sayymb, Qaxm’id mukhtmrah min al-shi‘r al-‘mlaml al-.adlth
(Selected Poems from Modern World Poetry) (Abu Dhabi: Cultural Foundation
Publications, 2nd print, 1998), pp. 5–6.
65 Jabrm, “The Rebels, the Committed and the Others,” pp. 191–205, at p. 192.
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