English Poetry and Modern Arabic Verse

This is the first study to examine the Arabic translations of a number of major modern poems in the English language, in particular T. S. Eliot''s The Waste Land and Walt Whitman''s Song of Myself. With case studies dedicated to the Arab translators who were themselves modernist poets, including Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Saadi Yusuf, the author brings a reading of the translations as literary wor...