Poetry
Textualising the Nostalgia of 1857: The Shahr Ashob Genre- Part Two
The poems of this era ushered in a more concrete portrayal of architectural decay - to articulate the memory of 1857 as a cultural trauma.
3 June 2024
Why John Donne Was Interested in Arabic
By the 1620s, Donne’s interest in ‘Eastern tongues’ extended to Arabic.
14 August 2023
Sympathy, Spice, or Spite for the Devil? Satan in 'Paradise Lost'
We are attracted to Satan because we ourselves are fallen, and as readers we need to experience the Fall just as Adam did
11 January 2021
'Sentences of Ali' (1717) and the Wisdom of the Arabs
The Islamic dimension of this wisdom was, far from causing some sort of religious anxiety, accepted and embraced
13 December 2020
An Arabic Poem for an English King: Edward Pococke’s Verses to Charles II
It was a creative feat that would have drawn on Pococke’s knowledge of the rich traditions of Arabic and English poetry
20 July 2020
Unearthing Readerprints: Paradise Lost
It was in that classroom, studying that text, that I realised we all had our own unique readerprint.
22 June 2020