Arabic poetry 9–12, 237–38, 267;
continuities and discontinuities 4–6;
history and criticism 1–3, 267;
poetics of legitimacy in context
241–43; prefatory and dedicatory
material 135; use of popular forms
117–23; use of Sumerian lore 26, 27,
107–11
Arab poets: acceptance of Western
culture 7; claiming and naming the
forebear 99–101; exile 164, 171–72;
poet-patron relationship 131–35,
241; political involvement 31;
popularity of Eliot’s The Waste
Landamong 226–27; role in Arab
world 28
Aristotle 178, 179
al-Arsnzl, Zakl23, 139–40
Artaud, Antonin 225
Ashcmr flal-manfm(Poems in Exile)
(al-Baymtl) 196
“Ash Wednesday” (Eliot) 223–24,
225, 226
Auerbach, Erich 171
authority 62, 64
autobiographical accounts: navigational
efforts between tradition and new
poetics 16–22
cAwa,, Luwls 218
cMznrl, Najlb 22–23
“Al-Ba..mr wa-al-Darwlsh”
(“The Sailor and the Dervish”)
(>mwl) 141–42
Bakhtin, Mikhail 62, 88, 93
Bmkrl, Ymhar 189
Baldwin, James 165
al-Barghnthl, Murld50
Barrmdah, Mu.ammad 55
al-Bmrndl 10
Bashshmr Ibn Burd 2
al-Baxlr, Mu.ammad Mahdl7–8
basly 122
Baudelaire, Charles 3, 15, 21, 57, 59,
66, 139
al-Baymtl, cAbd al-Wahhmb 27, 33, 38,
40, 47, 55, 56, 64–66, 69, 122, 135;
association between estrangement and
incarnation 225–26; comparison
with Eliot 219–20, 221, 222,
223–24, 225–26, 229–30, 232–24,
235–26; comparison with >mwl
153–54; comparison with Hikmet
105; comparison with al-Sayymb 219;
conversational poetics 103–05;
dedications 139–46, 193–94;
dedications to Eliot 220; dedications
to Lorca 144–45; elegies 146–49,
151–53, 154–55, 199; Eliotic
elements 141–42, 227, 230–32;
exile as textual engagement 191–93;
exile/exilic poetry 186, 193–217;
experimentation 56, 220; fear of
creative aridity 186, 203; fight
against memory 234–35;
identification with al-Macarrl
205–06; influence of Western poets
225; parody of poetics of allegiance
248–49; personae 153–54; poetic
strategies 86; recreation of
al-Macarrl’s poetics 76–78;
redemptive and regenerative poetics
210–11; revolutionary rhetoric
204–05; satire 231; and Sufism
142–43; textual apprenticeship 84;
tradition and modernity dialectics
57; treatment/readings of al-Macarrl
74, 75–76, 232–33;
treatment/readings of
al-Mutanabbl74–75, 156;
use of mythology 220–22;
use of precursors 223; women
symbols 211–16, 224
“Bayt Kmzim Jawmd” (Kmzim Jawmd’s
house) (Sa‘ld) 112–14
Bedouin identity 50–52
Benjamin, Walter 2, 11, 184
Bennls, Mu.ammad 37, 43; antecedent
authority 20–22; grounding in
tradition and modernity 5–6;
language 111–12; self-styled
lineage 2–3
Al-Bi’r al-mahjnrah(al-Khml) 32
Bird of the East(Al->aklm) 135,
136–38
Blake, William 78
brigand poetry 238
Browning, Robert 88
al-Bu.turl10, 131
Butler, William 31–32INDEX