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‘The new attitudes that have informed literature are even more conspicuous in poetry than in prose. Arabic poetry has at last freed itself from the fetters of classical tradition. Both French and English influences helped to shape the new art. The danger is that Western fashions are imitated uncritically, just as Arabic, Persian, or Turkish models were slavishly followed in the past. TS Eliot’s poetry and criticism were influential in dethroning the Romanticism that many poets had adopted earlier, in the 1920s and ’30s.’*

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**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:63]

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