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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Arabian poetry for English readers / edited , with introduction and notes, by W.A. Clouston. |
| Added Author: | Clouston, W.A. (William Alexander), 1843-1896 |
| Publisher: | Glasgow, Scotland : Privately printed [M'Laren], 1881. |
| Pages: | lxxii, 472 p.: ill., facsim., folded genealogical table |
| Contents: | Includes the 7 Mu'allaqat poems translated by Sir William Jones; 59 shorter poems translated by J.D. Carlyle; an epitome of the first part of the Romance of Antar translated by Terrick Hamilton; selections from the poetry by the Editor; Ka'b's [Ka'b ibn Zuhayr] Poem of the Mantle, translated by J.W. Redhouse; El-Busiri's Poem of the Mantle, translated by J.W. Redhouse. Appendix contains Neshwan Ibn Sa'id's poem, The Lay of the Himyarites, translated by Major W.F. Prideaux; extracts from the life and poetry of the poet 'Omar, translated by William Gifford Palgrave; an essay on the prosody of the Arabs with specimens of 1001 Nights poetry, translated by John Payne; El-Tughra'i's L poem of the Foreigner, translated by J.W. Redhouse. |
| Author as Subject: | Imru' al-Qays, 6th cent.Tarafa ibn al-'Abd, mid-6th cent.Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma, d.609Labid ibn Rabi'a al-'Amiri, d.c.661'Antara ibn Shaddad, 6th cent.'Amr ibn Kulthum, fl. 6th cent.al-Harith ibn Hilliza, 6th cent.Hatim al-Ta'i, late 6th cent.Miskin al-Darimi, 635-708ibn al-Rumi, 836-96Ibn Tabataba, d.934Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri, 973-1057 |
| Descriptors: | Poetry, Ancient Translated poems Anthology Translated terms Biography Mu'allaqat Poetry, Ancient -- Authenticity Prosody -- Metre -- Rajaz Fiction -- Tales -- 'Antara Thousand and one nights Prosody Biography |
| Location: | Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL PJ7631 Clo |
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