Clive Scott
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158820
- eISBN:
- 9780191673382
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158820.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, Poetry
This chapter discusses Saint-John Perse's Éloges, and looks at their metrical and prosodic quality. In this chapter, the queries such as where else might rhythm be in Perse's poetry and what ...
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This chapter discusses Saint-John Perse's Éloges, and looks at their metrical and prosodic quality. In this chapter, the queries such as where else might rhythm be in Perse's poetry and what particular linguistic elements might contribute to the music which is peculiarly his are examined and assessed. In addition to referring to his Éloges, the chapter also looks at some extracts from Perse's ‘Écrit sur la porte’, ‘Pour féter une enfance’, and ‘Éloges IX’ to pinpoint the rhythm and musicality in his poetry.Less
This chapter discusses Saint-John Perse's Éloges, and looks at their metrical and prosodic quality. In this chapter, the queries such as where else might rhythm be in Perse's poetry and what particular linguistic elements might contribute to the music which is peculiarly his are examined and assessed. In addition to referring to his Éloges, the chapter also looks at some extracts from Perse's ‘Écrit sur la porte’, ‘Pour féter une enfance’, and ‘Éloges IX’ to pinpoint the rhythm and musicality in his poetry.
Robyn Creswell
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691182186
- eISBN:
- 9780691185149
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691182186.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the ...
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This book is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. The book introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar—and unsettlingly strange. It provides an intellectual history of Lebanon during the early Cold War, when Beirut became both a battleground for rival ideologies and the most vital artistic site in the Middle East. Arabic modernism was centered on the legendary magazine Shi'r (“Poetry”), which sought to put Arabic verse on “the map of world literature.” The Beiruti poets—Adonis, Yusuf al-Khal, and Unsi al-Hajj chief among them—translated modernism into Arabic, redefining the very idea of poetry in that literary tradition. This book includes analyses of the Arab modernists' creative encounters with Ezra Pound, Saint-John Perse, and Antonin Artaud, as well as their adaptations of classical literary forms. The book also reveals how the modernists translated concepts of liberal individualism, autonomy, and political freedom into a radical poetics that has shaped Arabic literary and intellectual debate to this day.Less
This book is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. The book introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar—and unsettlingly strange. It provides an intellectual history of Lebanon during the early Cold War, when Beirut became both a battleground for rival ideologies and the most vital artistic site in the Middle East. Arabic modernism was centered on the legendary magazine Shi'r (“Poetry”), which sought to put Arabic verse on “the map of world literature.” The Beiruti poets—Adonis, Yusuf al-Khal, and Unsi al-Hajj chief among them—translated modernism into Arabic, redefining the very idea of poetry in that literary tradition. This book includes analyses of the Arab modernists' creative encounters with Ezra Pound, Saint-John Perse, and Antonin Artaud, as well as their adaptations of classical literary forms. The book also reveals how the modernists translated concepts of liberal individualism, autonomy, and political freedom into a radical poetics that has shaped Arabic literary and intellectual debate to this day.
