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Badr Shâkir Al-Sayyâb and the Free Verse Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Issa J. Boullata
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To measure the achievement of Badr Shâkir al-Sayyâb and ascertain his place in modern Arabic poetry, the general condition of Arabic poetry up to the Second World War must be taken into consideration.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1970 , pp. 248 - 258
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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page 249 note 1 Cf., Badr Shâkir al-Sayyâb: ‘Al-Shi'r al-'râqî al-Hadîth Munshu Bidâyat al-Qarn a1-‘Ishrîn’ in Badr Shâkir al-Sayyâb, ed. Simon, Jargy, Manhûrât Adwâ’ (Beirut?,1966?), p.101.Google Scholar

page 250 note 1 Al-Âdâb (Beirut, March 1966), p. 89.Google Scholar

page 250 note 2 BSOAS, vol. XXXI, Part I, 1968, pp. 28–51.Google Scholar

page 250 note 3 Louis, ‘Awad: Bliûtulând, Matba‘at al-Karnak bi’l-Faggâla (Cairo, 1947).Google Scholar

page 252 note 1 Only the band genre seems to have abandoned this concept, but it remained obscure, rare and limited to Iraq in its Ottoman period of literary decadence. It was unknown in modern times, and was not discovered except a few years after the free verse movement had already begun. Cf., Nâzik al-Malâ‘ika: ‘Al-Band wa Mak‘nuh min al-ûArûd al-‘Arabî’ in Qadâyâ a1-Sh‘r a1-Mu‘âsir (Beirut, 1962), pp. 167–79.Google Scholar

page 253 note 1 Azhâ Shabila, pp. 68–72; reprinted in Azhâr wa Asâtîr, pp. 139–41.Google Scholar

page 253 note 2 Cf., Badr Shâkir al-Sayyâb's collection Asâtîr (Najaf, 1950),Google Scholar the poems entitled ‘Sawfa Amdî’, ‘Asâtîr’, ‘Sarâb’, ‘al-Liqâ’ al-Akhîr’, ‘Itbâ‘înî’, ‘Nihâya’, ‘Fî alQarya al-zalmâ’, ‘Ughniyâ’ Qad’, ‘Fî Layâlî al-Kharîf’, and ‘Fî al-Sûq al-Qadîm’, some of which were earlier published in the papers of Baghdad and Najaf. These poems are also reprinted in his Azhâr wa Asâtir (Beirut, 1963?).Google Scholar

page 253 note 3 Nâzik, al-Malâika: 'Introduction to Shazâya wa Ramâd, second edition (Beirut 1959), pp. 7–18.Google Scholar

page 253 note 4 Badr, Shâkir al-Sayyâb: Introduction to Asâtîr (Najaf, 1950), pp. 5–8.Google Scholar

page 253 note 5 Al-Âdâb (June 1954), p. 69.Google Scholar

page 254 note 1 Kh;adr, al-Wâlî: Ârâ' fi'l-Shh‘r wa’l-Qissa (Baghdad, 1956), p. 12.Google Scholar

page 254 note 2 Shi'r, No. 1 Summer 1957, p. 111.Google Scholar

page 254 note 3 Ibid. p. 112.

page 254 note 4 Al-Âdâb, October 1956, pp. 22–3.Google Scholar

page 254 note 5 Ibid.

page 255 note 1 Badr Shâkir, al-Sayyâb: Asâtir (Najaf, 1950), p. 8.Google Scholar

page 256 note 1 Al-Nahâr Sunday Supplement, Beirut, 7 February 1965, p. 19.Google Scholar

page 256 note 2 See Bibliography, nos. 1–12.

page 256 note 3 See Bibliography, nos. 13–19.