A Formal Foundation for Comparative Study of the Late Persianate

Abstract This article addresses poetic form as a foundation bridging the literary contexts of Arabic and Persian that exists beyond bounds Euro-American influence. We find originally science ʿarūḍ , prosody, used in these two to retool premodern for modern era. Questions encourage us think about how modernist poets writing approach their poetry craft emerges not out engagements with Western literature but rather from shared past. By tracing formal links across Persian, this argues paying attention tradition prosodic they share helps both understand early development each language avoid explanations informed mostly by critical frameworks study literatures.