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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
Some time ago I endeavoured to explain to an audience in this room the predominantly pictorial character of the ancient poetry of the Arabs, and gave as illustrations some passages from the poets, chiefly describing the fauna of the wilderness and the landscape in which their life was set, and showing the minute observation and vivid sympathy which the artist brought to bear upon his subject. I wish, now, to continue the same theme by setting before you a poet's picture of himself, of his life and its ideals, of the things which he admired and strove to attain.
page 211 note 1 See JRAS. 1912, p. 133.Google Scholar
page 214 note 1 Doughty, 's Laheyân, ii, 535Google Scholar; for the Quraish see id. 526, 534, Robertson Smith says they are carpenters.
page 215 note 1 Vol. iv, p. 310.
page 218 note 1 Believed to be derived from the Greek λῃστς.
page 219 note 1 Two verses, which are doublets of vv. 9 and 7, and repeat the same ideas in a weaker form, have been omitted.
page 224 note 1 It is omitted by Abū 'Ikrimah, whose recension goes back, through Ibn al-A'rābī, direct to al-Mufaḍḍai; but I have left it out in reading the poem only because of its want of harmony (in English).
page 227 note 1 A phrase of Rückert, 's—rauhe Wildheit—adopted by Mr. Nicholson in his Literary History of the Arabs, p. 106.Google Scholar