Poetry
ديوان البارودي
Not translated into English
Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi · 1942
Synopsis
The collection brings together the verse of an officer who became head of government, the author, according to Terri DeYoung, of more than four hundred compositions, in a neoclassical manner that returns to the ancient models. A large part dates from the seventeen years of exile in Ceylon: according to a paper from the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, these poems speak of solitude, illness and separation from the homeland. DeYoung reads in them a poetry that became philosophical through contact with exile.
Context
The diwan was edited and annotated by Ali al-Jarim and Mohammed Chafiq Maarouf, and published in Cairo by the Ministry of Public Instruction in several volumes, from 1942 to 1954 according to the catalogue of Imam Mohammad ibn Saud University; it was reissued in Cairo in 1971 and in Beirut in 1992. Terri DeYoung devoted a study to it in 2015, in which she links its poetic innovations to the upheavals of an Egypt that was modernising, and a reviewer sees in it a major reference on the roots of change in modern Arabic poetry.
Who it is for
Poems in classical Arabic, dense and archaic in manner; no translation into French or English has been found.
Prizes and reception
The work of a poet regarded as the initiator of the neoclassical revival, inseparable from his exile.
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