The Arab Free Verse poets and the Abbasid modernizers

What is it about?

Consciousness of craft and of the tradition characterizes the poetry of the twentieth-century free verse poets and the modernizers of the Abbasid age. This paper challenges the dichotomy of modern and classical which has worked to isolate the modernist experience of the twentieth century from the continuum of Arabic poetry, leaving it to search for references and roots outside the Arabic tradition.

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