The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abū Nuw=as and the Literary Tradition

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 Nuw=as (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.


Author: Philip F. Kennedy
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 11/13/1997
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780198263920

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