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Document Type:Book
Title:The mute immortals speak : pre-islamic poetry and the poetry of ritual / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
Author: Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney
Publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Pages:285 p.
ISBN:0801427649
Notes:c1993 by Cornell University.Includes index.Includes original translations of 25 poems.
Author as Subject: Labid, d. ca. 661Ta'abbata Sharran, 1st half 6th cent.?Durayd ibn al-Simma, d. ca. 630al-Shanfara, d. ca. 550al-Khirniq, d. per. ca. 600Zuhayr, d. 609al-Fari'a bint Shaddad Rayta ukht 'Amr Umm 'Amr bint Waqda Hind bint Hudhayfa Hind bint 'Atatha Muhalhil ibn Rabi'a, 5th cent.
Descriptors: Translated poems Ancient poetry Poetry, Ancient -- Ritual Poetry, Ancient -- Lyric Elegy Poetry, Ancient -- Long poem Poetics
Location: Bodleian Library, Oxford. BODM94 E10709
 

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