Modern Arabic Poetry
Subtitle: An Anthology
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780231052726
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; Arabic Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Arabic; Poetry; African; 20th century; Arabic poetry; Translations into English
First sentence: At the beginning of the twentieth century Arabic poetry was remote from the mainstream of world poetry; indeed, it was lagging far behind.