Jawdat haydar biography of william

It will also be of use to those specialising in the comparative literature of the Middle East and the literary history of Anglo-Arabic influences in terms of the English poetical movements of Romanticism and Modernism and their reception in the Anglophone literary circles of the Arab world. There are currently no reviews for this title.

Please do revisit this page again to see if some have been added. Designed and Built by Prime Creative. Close Menu X. Register Login. In "The Black Corner", Haydar lamented the destroyed Lebanon and dreamt that one day it might restore its glorious past. Still lonely and silently contemplating When I heard the voice of Gibran: "Pity the nation divided into fragments Each fragment deeming itself a nation.

The Mahjar poets expressed their nostalgia by remembering the years they spent in Lebanon. For instance, Rihani wrote in The Book of Khalid:. I sit me on a bench and weep. And in my heart I sing O, let me be a burro-boy again; O, let me sleep among the cyclamens Of my own land. My beloved are gone, and I am here Living as I did when my people and my Beloved were enjoying life and the Bounty of life, and when the hills of My country were blessed and engulfed By the light of the sun.

Unlike the Mahjar poets, Haydar did not live in exile at the time he wrote his poems. Nonetheless, his work expresses the same anguish and pain as Mahjar writing had for its homeland. His nostalgia springs from the rejection of the Civil War, and his wish to reunite with the glorious Lebanon of the past. Alienation Living as exiles, the Mahjar poets felt alienated from their new environment.

However, their alienation was strictly individual; that is, they did not seek to include a collective consciousness in their personal experiences. I said, "Solitude I came seeking. Let me be And wend your way. Haydar was not in actual exile at the time he wrote his poems; yet, Michael Seidel asserts that "alienation, as part of artistic consciousness, can register without one ever leaving home… It is the imagination that relocates or repairs the experience of being exiled, as it were, while still in place" xi-xii.

His poems reflect his unwillingness to live in the recently destroyed Lebanon and his preference to communicate his distress to soothing nature:.

Jawdat haydar biography of william

Once lonely and lonesome having been Shocked by a horrific scene, Went hiking on a mountain side Where a fan of streams opened wide Gargling throat down the slopes intertwined; In a lake grown tulips behind A forest of cedars that stand Since time was known years in our land Echoes "Bereaved Birds Sorrow Like Men". In other words, his alienation is steered towards commitment.

He sought to understand, analyze, and find solutions" par. In the "Coming Quietus", Haydar addressed the world with a powerful message concerning the abuse of nature:. Shadows p. As for the Mahjar poets, they were concerned for their country and nature in general. They tackled these issues, however, from a romantic point of view. Rihani described pollution as such: "How beautiful is the rain falling on the bridge and the river beneath it!

How disturbing is the clash of the automobiles and trains, which carry people like cattle! How precious is their time and cheap their lives! Gibran commented on the situation of his people by positioning himself as a helpless lonely, exiled soul:. What can an exiled son do for his Starving people, and of what value Unto them is the lamentation of an Absent poet?

Then, for 27 years, he held the position of General Director of Iraq Petroleum Company before resigning in to devote himself definitively to poetry, cultural activities and agriculture in his hometown of Baalbeck where he founded the "Literary Oasis" Wahat al-adab , a meeting place for the poets of the Bekaa. Jawdat Haydar witnessed the upheavals of the 20th century in Lebanon and the Arab world, including the Ottoman despotism, the mandate, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Lebanese war.

He published four books in English: Voices , Echoes , Shadows and selected Poems, published in New York in , the year of his death, as well as an autobiography, The journey of a Life, published in Arabic in , which received several honors and awards. Through his poems, he expresses his bitterness and seems to seek his identity that is torn between East and West.

Collection description Currently, this collection of handwritten documents contains: Papers: writings, poems, texts, correspondence, and speeches Notebooks: poems, texts, personal notes Type Literary Material importance The archive of humanist poet Jawdat Haydar is a rich and voluminous literary archive. This archive makes it possible to retrace the life of Jawdat Haydar in all his literary activities.

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