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Document Type:Book
Title:Arabic poetry : a primer for students / edited by A.J. Arberry.
Added Author: Arberry, A.J. (Arthur John), 1905-1969
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1965.
Pages:vii, 175 p.
Notes:Copyright 1965 Cambridge University Press.Introduction contains definitions in English of 15 rhetorical terms with examples in ArabicIncludes biography of 30 poetsIncludes literal translations of each poem
Author as Subject: al-Samaw'al, 6th cent.al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani, 6th cent.'Antara ibn Shaddad, 6th cent.al-Khansa', d. after 644'Umar ibn Abi Rabi'a, 644-712 or 721Bashshar ibn Burd, d. 783 or 4Abu Nuwas, c.755-c.813Abu al-'Atahiya, Isma'il ibn al-Qasim, 747 or 8-826Abu Tammam, c.805-845Ibn al-Rumi, 836-96al-Buhturi, al-Walid ibn 'Ubayd, ca. 821-897 or 8Ibn al-Mu'tazz, 861-908 al-Mutanabbi, c.915-65al-Sharif al-Radi, 970-1015Mihyar al-Daylami, 1036-7Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri, 973-1058Ibn Zaydun, 1003-70Ibn al-Khayyat Ibn Khafaja, 1058-1138 or 9Ibn Zuhr Ibn 'Unayn, 1154-12331181-1235Baha' al-Din Zuhayr, 1185-1258Ibn Sahl al-Ishbili, 1212-51Ibn Zakur al-Shidyaq (Ahmad) Faris, 1804-87al-Barudi, Mahmud Sami, 1839-1904Shawqi, Ahmad, 1868-1932Mutran, Khalil, 1872-1949al-Rusafi, Ma'ruf 'Abd al-Ghani, 1875-1945
Descriptors: Poetry, Ancient Poetry, Modern Translated poems Translated terms al-Mukhtalif (al-naqis) al-Mudhayal (al-za'id) Grammar -- Compound Poetry -- Mispronouncing Prosody -- Metre -- Mudari' al-Mukhalif (al-maqlub) Tibaq Poetics -- Equivalence Balanced opposition Tarsi' Parallelism Poetry -- Language --Concord Epanalepsis Poetics -- Ingenious assignment of cause Poetics --Feigned ignorance Hyperbole Enjambment Allusion Poetry -- Technical terms --Folding and unfolding Poetics -- Making imagine Paronomasia
Location: Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL Main Libr.: PJ7631ARB
 

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