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Document Type:Book
Title:The poetry of the East / by William Rounseville Alger.
Author: Alger, William Rounseville, 1822-1905
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856.
Pages:viii, 280 p.
Notes:English translations of Oriental literature, in part derived from Latin, French and German sources (some poems translated from the German of Herder and Ruckert); includes original poetry on Oriental subjectsIntroduction has a section on Arabic poetry (p.45-54)Includes alphabetical index
Author as Subject: al-Mutanabbi, c.915-965Harun al-Rashid, 763-809
Descriptors: Anthology Poetry, Ancient Translated poems
Location: Bodleian, Oxford. BOD Or.e.48
 

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