The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the Literary Tradition

by Philip F. Kennedy

Overview

Classical Arab civilization produced the most extensive and highly developed bacchic tradition in world literature, In this book, Kennedy traces the history of wine poetry from its origins in sixth century Arabia to its heyday in Baghdad at the turn of the ninth century. He focusses on the work of the great Abū Nuwās (d. c.813), placing his wine songs in context with those of his contemporaries and with other poetic genres such as amatory, invective, ascetic, and gnomic verse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198263920
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/13/1997
Series:	Oxford Oriental Monographs
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)

About the Author

New York University

Editorial Reviews

"...an accomplished and attractive study of one of the Arabic language's most celebrated poets."—Middle East Journal

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