Point 4 of 12 — Lesson 2: The Evening by Khalil Mutran and the Foundations of the Emotional DirectionQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
04Introducing Khalil Mutran
ALebanese poet born in Baalbek in 1871, ofan Arab Christian family called Al Mutran, tracing itself to the Ghassanids.
Hestudied in Zahle and Beirut, thenleft for Paris in 1900, fearing Ottoman oppression and its plots.
Hemigrated to Egypt in 1902 and took part in editing the Ahram newspaper and other papers.
In1935 he was given the management of the national theatre company, and in1947 he was titled "poet of the two homelands" (Egypt and Lebanon).
Among his works: translations of Shakespeare's plays (Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet), literary and economic writings, besides his diwan.
Hedied in 1949.
He isthe pioneer of the romantic tendency in modern Arabic poetry, and his poetry isa transitional stage from conservative Revivalism to the emotional direction.
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