jabra ibrahim jabra, one of the most prolific arab authors, has enriched the arabic library and the mind of his audience by first functioning as a link in a rich chain of past cultural, artistic, and literary heritage; and second by reflecting the modern arab intellectual's classical mindset. he has a multifaceted career as a short story writer, novelist, critic, poet, playwright, and pain...

(1809-49)-American poet, short-story writer, and critic who is best known for his tales of ratiocination, his fantastical horror stories, and his genre-founding detective stories. Poe, whose cloudy personal life is a virtual legend, considered himself primarily a poet. William Wilson (1839)-A tale about a man's struggle with his conscience — an allegory in which William Wilson meets William Wil...

the signs of sadness, concern and losing one’s thought balance are among the varieties of the manifestation of loneliness in human beings. the contemporary arab poet is a sensitive, bright minded man, living under the dominance of colonialism or anti-freedom organizations, suffering from different forms of loneliness. such a condition will cause that poet to lose his life balance and peaceful b...

Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), Dutch writer and poet, son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was 6 years old he was struck by an accident to a foot, causing inflammation of the periosteum. Medical errors caused him to stay inside, shut off from the outside world and his peers. He devoted his childhood and youth to study, drawing and writing. He became a historian, linguist, poet and lawyer. Sou...

irony in literature is an art that reflects the underlying pain and heals the hidden anguish that it wants to use to heal its grief and remove its anguish through its opposite. hence, the pain felt by the writer or the poet and his inability to remove the causes of this pain is the motivation behind this irony that the poet creates. however, the motivation to resort to this method varies from e...

nizar qabbani a poet of love, women and politics, was born in damascus. it is more aljamahirin arab poets in the arab world made own language characterized by qualities and is no stranger to the language or have been borrowed from other languages. they are the same as those unable to several poets from processed and throw them difficult and not comply with the language of poetry, and in spite o...