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AbstractThis study presents an analytical review of the genre of the “hunt-poem” (ardiyyah) at the hand of the ‘Abbāsid poet Ibn al-Mu‘tazz (d. 296/908). It is in this period that the genre of the ardiyyah reaches its second apogee after the great pioneering Abū Nuwās. After dealing with issues of genre and prosody (rajaz versus the qaīdah meters), the study focuses its critical attention on Ibn al-Mu‘tazz’s overcoming of the strictly formulaic opening lyrical phrasing of the majority of the ardiyyahs, especially as the genre was formalized by Abū Nuwās. It is in overcoming the limitations of the formulaism of Abū Nuwās, which does not do justice to the genre’s lyrical promise, that Ibn al-Mu‘tazz achieves his breakthrough into lyricism and a reinvigoration of the genre. Through a close reading and translation of the Arabic texts, the study presents a careful identification of the variants of lyricism in Ibn al-Mu‘tazz’s repertory of the ardiyyah genre.

Abstract This study consists of an interpretation and full translation of a single poem by the contemporary Arab Egyptian poet Muḥammad ʿAfīfī Maṭar (1935-2010). The poet titles it Ṭardiyyah (Hunt Poem). With this title, the poem admits its link to the Umayyad-born and ʿAbbāsid-matured genre of the \"poem of the courtly hunt,\" ṭardiyyah. ʿAfīfī Maṭar's understanding of his no longer courtly, modernist poem is therefore hermeneutically connected to his understanding of the old genre, informing his modern mythopoetic employ of the archaic motif of \"the morning of the hunter.\" This essay also discusses: ʿAfīfī Maṭar's place among the European and American poets of radical Modernism, especially, regarding the mythopoetic stance of Wallace Stevens; the problem of the notorious difficulty and obscurity ( ṣuʿūbah and ghumūḍ ) of ʿAfīfī Maṭar's poetic language; and the general search of modern Arab poets, among them Adūnīs, for a new poetic language. Finally, the essay singles out ʿAfīfī Maṭar's Ṭardiyyah and his very personal mythopoesis as a total achievement in the presentation of a Modernist Arabic poem-an achievement analogous to Wallace Stevens' \"central poem,\" that is, A Primitive like an Orb.

This study presents an analytical review of the genre of the \"hunt-poem\" (tardiyyah) at the hand of the 'Abbāsid poet Ibn al-Mu'tazz (d. 296/908). It is in this period that the genre of the ṭardiyyah reaches its second apogee after the great pioneering Abū Nuwās. After dealing with issues of genre and prosody (rajaz versus the qaṣīdah meters), the study focuses its critical attention on Ibn al-Mu'tazz's overcoming of the strictly formulaic opening lyrical phrasing of the majority of the ṭardiyyahs, especially as the genre was formalized by Abū Nuwās. It is in overcoming the limitations of the formulaism of Abū Nuwās, which does not do justice to the genre's lyrical promise, that Ibn al-Mu'tazz achieves his breakthrough into lyricism and a reinvigoration of the genre. Through a close reading and translation of the Arabic texts, the study presents a careful identification of the variants of lyricism in Ibn al-Mu'tazz's repertory of the ṭardiyyah genre.

This study consists of an interpretation and full translation of a single poem by the contemporary Arab Egyptian poet Muhammad 'Afīfī Matar (1935-2010). The poet titles it Ṭardiyyah (Hunt Poem). With this title, the poem admits its link to the Umayyad-born and 'Abbāsid-matured genre of the \"poem of the courtly hunt,\" ṭardiyyah. 'Afīfī Matar's understanding of his no longer courtly, modernist poem is therefore hermeneutically connected to his understanding of the old genre, informing his modern mythopoetic employ of the archaic motif of \"the morning of the hunter.\" This essay also discusses: 'Afīfī Maṭar's place among the European and American poets of radical Modernism, especially, regarding the mythopoetic stance of Wallace Stevens; the problem of the notorious difficulty and obscurity (su'ūbah and ghumūd) of 'Afīfī Maṭar's poetic language; and the general search of modern Arab poets, among them Adūnīs, for a new poetic language. Finally, the essay singles out 'Afīfī Maṭar's Ṭardiyyah and his very personal mythopoesis as a total achievement in the presentation of a Modernist Arabic poem—an achievement analogous to Wallace Stevens' \"central poem,\" that is, A Primitive like an Orb.

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