Makamat or Rhetorical Anecdotes: Of Al Hariri of Basra (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Theodore Preston

9780331281651: Makamat or Rhetorical Anecdotes: Of Al Hariri of Basra (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331281651 ISBN 13: 9780331281651

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Excerpt from Makamat or Rhetorical Anecdotes: Of Al Hariri of Basra

Nothing is to be found corresponding with those bold and sublime efforts of English poesy, which, as if fearing to be hampered by the trammels of rhyme, have arrayed themselves in the plain but majestic attire of blank verse. An Eastern poet who should neglect to assume the elaborate ornaments of style prescribed by established custom, would at once be condemned unheard, on the score of indolence or incapacity. For such negligence no excel lence of ideas could atone in the eyes of his countrymen. 'if his conceptions are fine, ' they would say, 'why does he not make the exertion requisite to produce them in a more worthy and elegant form.

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