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T.S. Eliot in Baghdad : a Study in Eliot's Influence on the Iraqi and Arab Free Verse Movement

By Eliot , Thomas Stearns; Jawād , ʻAbd al-Sattār

Book information

Publisher
The Edwin Mellen Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0773400745, 978-0-7734-0074-0, 9780773445888, 0773445889
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19930361 bytes)
Pages
308\333
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

The book sheds new light on the revolutionary influence of Eliot's poetry on the free verse movement in Iraq and Lebanon, especially on the mythical poets: Al-Sayyab, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Yusuf Al-Khal, Khalil Hawi and Adonis known as the Tammuzi Poets. The writer is one of Eliot's best translators who personally knew all five of these modern mythical poets

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