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Abstract
This article demonstrates how the self—reference to personal stories—infiltrates some, if not most, of the poems by two renowned modernist poets and literary critics: the American/Englishman T. S. Eliot and the Syrian/Lebanese ʿAlī Aḥmad Saʿīd, popularly known as Adūnīs or Adonis. The article compares the two poets’ depictions of the personal and the impersonal in poetry, and it reaffirms the great influence that Eliot’s poetry has on Adūnīs and other Arab modernist poets. While Eliot’s criticism discourages any biographical reading of his poetry, Adūnīs holds a different view by openly acknowledging the inclusion or existence of the personal in his poetry. Adūnīs’ poetry, in particular, stresses the link between texts and historical figures in the realm of literature.
Highlights
This article provides a comparative study of the poetry of T
While Eliot’s criticism discourages any biographical reading of his poetry, Adūnīs holds a different view by openly acknowledging the inclusion or existence of the personal in his poetry
Eliot has had some influence on Adūnīs and other Arab modernist poets, and many scholars have examined the extent of that influence
Summary
This article provides a comparative study of the poetry of T. It is on record that, during his lifetime, Eliot did his utmost to keep biographers away from infringing upon his privacy and delving into his personal life. He discouraged any attempt at writing his biography (Letters xv). Many biographical works on him have been published, with the support of his wife Mrs Valerie Eliot. Most notable among his biographies is The Letters of T. Think.” [111-14] Is often considered to be “an almost philosophical rendering of Vivienne’s status” in Eliot’s life (Ellmann 117). Eliot’s dedication of Poems 1909-1925, “For my dearest Vivienne, this book, which no one else will quite understand” (Facsimile 12), further serves to underpin the autobiographical elements in his poetry
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